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6Speaking Theologically: The Concept of habitus in Peter Lombard and His FollowersIn Nicolas Faucher & Magali Roques (eds.), The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy, Springer. pp. 67-85. 2018.This essay examines the theological concept of a habitus, the problems it was intended to solve, and how it was developed by masters of Paris in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries. I argue that Peter Lombard and Peter of Poitiers embraced the broad concept of a habitus they found in Augustine’s work: that by which something is done when there is a need. A habitus, then, did not have to be acquired by practice, and it might never be manifest in the agent’s behaviour, because the need…Read more
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2Dispositions and Moral Fallibility: The UnAristotelian AquinasHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 29 (2). 2012.
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1The moral lifeIn Arthur Stephen McGrade (ed.), The Cambridge companion to medieval philosophy, Cambridge University Press. pp. 231--253. 2003.
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Buridan on the value of emotionsIn Spencer C. Johnston & Henrik Lagerlund (eds.), Interpreting Buridan: critical essays, Cambridge University Press. 2024.
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Ch. 6. Losable virtue : Aquinas on character and willIn Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller & Matthias Perkams (eds.), Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2013.
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PART 4 107 Weakness and integrity 8 Moral growth and the unity of the virtues 109In David Carr & J. W. Steutel (eds.), Virtue Ethics and Moral Education, Routledge. 1999.
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Moral growth and the unity of the virtuesIn David Carr & J. W. Steutel (eds.), Virtue Ethics and Moral Education, Routledge. pp. 109--124. 1999.
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