Aquinas and Virtue Acquisition in Secondary Causes

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Julie Loveland Swanstrom, “Aquinas and Virtue Acquisition in Secondary Causes,” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 76, no. 1 (2020): 261–82, https://doi.org/10.17990/RPF/2020_76_1_0261.

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Aquinas and Virtue Acquisition in Secondary Causes

Type	Journal Article
Author	Julie Loveland Swanstrom
Rights	© 2020 Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
Volume	76
Issue	1
Pages	261-282
Publication	Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia
ISSN	0870-5283
Date	2020
DOI	10.17990/RPF/2020_76_1_0261
Language	English
Abstract	A part of Aquinas’s argument against occasionalism is that creatures like human beings must be true causes in order to be able to grow and be perfected. Were humans not true causes, God’s promises and exhortations to humankind are for naught. Here, I explore the role of virtue in habit and the perfection of human beings in Aquinas, with the larger goal of using this discussion of virtue to address secondary causation. Virtue is relevant because a) creatures can act as secondary causes because of the powers God has imbued in their nature and b) humans must be secondary causes or else they could not strive toward the good by attaining proper habits. To pursue a clearer understanding of Aquinas’s theory of secondary causes, then, it is necessary to further explore how virtue acquisition works. To that end, I will discuss the role of habit, which is the basis of virtue, the notion of virtue itself and how it is acquired by these secondary causes, the importance of the acquisition of virtues through proper habits, and the connection virtue has to secondary causes.
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