Conscience and Other Virtues: From Bonaventure to MacIntyre

Contents

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C O N T E N T S Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 PART I: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1 Classical Background to Discussions of Conscience 7 2 Bonaventure’s View of Conscience and Synderesis 21 3 Aquinas on Conscience, the Virtues, and Weakness of Will 39 4 Scotus and Ockham on Synderesis and Conscience 53 5 Luther and the Rise of Conscience as a Faculty 71 PART II: THE CONTEMPORARY DISMISSAL OF CONSCIENCE 6 Freud and Ryle on Conscience 87 7 Conscience as Something Other Than a Faculty 99 8 More Traditional Views of Conscience 109 9 The Existence of Conscience 121 PART III: CONSCIENCE AS A KEY TO VIRTUE ETHICS 10 Conscience Among the Virtue Ethicists 135 11 Conscience and Virtue Ethics 151 12 Conscience and Other Virtues 173 Appendix: MacIntyre’s Project 179 Bibliography 185 Index 189 ...