Phil
43165:
Aquinas on Faith, Hope, and Charity
Freddoso
304 Malloy 631-7327
E-mail: afreddos@gmail.com
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Purpose----Texts----Requirements----
Syllabus----Online
Handouts----Paper Assignments-----Grade Scale
Purpose
of Course: A close examination of St. Thomas
Aquinas's treatment of the three so-called 'theological virtues', viz.,
faith, hope, and charity. We will begin with a general overview of St.
Thomas's moral theory and his general treatment of grace, the infused
virtues, and the theological virtues in Summa Theologiae
1-2. This will include questions on the gifts of the Holy
Spirit, the necessity and nature of grace, divine adoption, and the New Law of grace. Then we
will spend the bulk of the semester on questions from the
treatises on faith, hope, and charity in Summa Theologiae
2-2.
Texts:
- Summa
Theologiae 1, 1-2, and 2-2, qq. 1-23 (my translation).
This covers everything in the course except the treatise on charity and
one question from Summa
Theologiae 3.
- Summa
Theologiae 2-2, qq. 24ff. and 3, q. 23 from the New
Advent Website. (This is for whatever I have not translated
from the treatise on charity, and one question from Part 3 of the Summa.)
- In addition, there are several supplementary texts available
on
the online handout section
of
the course website.
- For those interested, the Latin text of the Summa Theologiae is
available online at Index
Corporis Thomistici, which was created by Prof. Enrique
Alarcon
of the University of Navarre, Spain.
Requirements:
- Class
Participation (25% of course grade). This
consists of two separate things:
(a) You must submit to me by email, before 10:00AM on each class day, a
question/comment based on the readings assigned for that day. I expect the questions/comments to be well
thought
out and well articulated. They will serve as the starting
point
for my class comments on the day in question. (I pay close
attention to the quality of these questions in determining the
participation component of the grade.) (15% of course grade)
(b) Active and intelligent participation in seminar discussions.
In general, student initiative and signs of self-motivation
will
be rewarded in this course. (10% of course grade)
- Papers.
You are required
to write three 6-7 page
papers, worth 75% of the course grade. These will be due on 10/16, 11/2, and
12/9 and
should be submitted electronically in .doc or docx format as email
attachments.
The topics will be assigned, though you have the
option of writing the last paper on a topic of your own choosing, as long as you clear the topic
with me first.
Syllabus:
I.
Introduction to St. Thomas's Moral Theory
- 8/26: General account of
the cardinal virtues and the infused theological virtues: ST 1-2, ques.
61 (all), and quest.
62 (all), and q.
63, arts. 3 and 4
- 8/31: The necessity for
grace: ST 1-2, q.
109 (all)
- 9/2: The nature of
grace and divine adoption (filiation): ST
1-2, q. 110 (all) and ST 3, ques. 23 (all)
- 9/7: General account of
the gifts of the Holy Spirit and their relation to the beatitudes and
to the fruits of the Holy Spirit: ST 1-2, q.
68 (all), q.
69, art. 1, and q.
70, art. 2
- 9/9: The New Law of
Grace: ST
1-2, q.
106, arts. 1 and 2 and q.
108 (all)
II. Faith
- 9/21:
The interior act of faith: ST 2-2, ques. 2,
arts. 1-5
- 9/23: More on
the interior act of faith, part II: ST 2-2, ques. 2,
arts. 6-10
- 9/28: The exterior act
of faith and the virtue of faith: ST 2-2, ques. 3
(all) and ST 2-2, ques. 4,
arts. 1-4
- 9/30: More on the virtue
of faith: ST 2-2, ques. 4,
arts. 5-8
- 10/5:
The subjects of faith, the cause of faith, and the effects of
faith: ST
2-2, ques.
5 (all), ques.
6 (all), and ques.
7 (all)
- 10/28:
Sins against hope: despair: ST 2-2, ques.
20 (all)
- 11/2: Sins against hope: presumption: ST 2-2, ques.
21 (all)
IV.
Charity
- 11/4:
Charity in its own right: ST 2-2, ques.
23 (all)
- 11/9: The subject of charity: ST 2-2, ques.
24 (all) (paper due by email attachment --
no comment due)
- 11/11: The object of charity: ST 2-2, ques.
25 (all)
- 11/16: The order of charity: ST 2-2, ques.
26 (all)
- 11/18: The principal act of charity: elective love: ST 2-2, ques.
27 (all)
- 11/23: Interior acts of charity: joy, peace, and mercy: ST 2-2, ques.
28 (all) , ques. 29 (all), and ques. 30 (all)
- 11/30: Exterior acts of charity: beneficence, almsgiving, and fraternal correction: ques. 31 (all), ques. 32 (all), and ques. 33 (all)
- 12/2: Sin opposed to charity itself (hatred), and sins opposed to joy (acedia, envy): ques. 34 (all), ques. 35 (all), and ques. 36 (all)
- 12/7: Sins opposed to peace: discord, contention, schism, strife: ques. 37 (all), ques. 38 (all), ques. 39 (all), and ques. 41 (all)
- 12/9: More sins opposed to peace (war and sedition), and a sin opposed to beneficence (scandal): ques. 40 (all), ques. 42 (all), and ques. 43 (all) (paper due by email attachment --
no comment due)
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