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Acknowledgments My first exposure to the philosophical study of emotion was long ago in a course taught by Karen J.Warren, then of St. Olaf College. She taught with such skill and passion that I continue to feel the power of her mind after all these years.Very few scholars at the time were taking the emotions seriously as a topic of philosophical study. Karen was a trail blazer. In graduate school at Brown, I had the good fortune to study with several teachers who encouraged me to pursue this neglected area of study. I am grateful to J. Giles Milhaven, my mentor and friend, who taught me to love—and to argue lovingly—withThomasAquinas. Giles passed away while I was writing this book. I am also grateful to John P. Reeder Jr., who has been a faithful and astute commenter on my scholarship for many years; to Sumner B.Twiss, who continues to contribute to my intellectual and professional development in countless ways; and to Martha C. Nussbaum, who deepened my appreciation for the remarkable things that ancient philosophers can teach us about the emotions and, indeed, about life. It was Martha who urged me to write this book. Specifically with regard to this project, I am indebted to many people, for many different things. Jock Reeder and EdwardVacek offered extensive, penetrating comments on every chapter of an earlier draft. Keith Green brought to the project a keen mind and the heart of friendship. Jonathan Schofer provided remarkable perspective on the project as a whole and on matters of method. Many other colleagues read and offered helpful comments on a full draft of the manuscript, including Stephen Pope,William McDonough, Nancy Menning, Michele Petersen, Abbylynn Helgevold, Christine Darr, and Nancy Hauserman. Other colleagues who assisted me with various parts of this project, through conversation or the gift of their scholarship, include Jean Porter, Christopher Mount,Thomas Lewis, James Gubbins, Howard Rhodes, Jordan Copeland, Richard McCarty, and Ezra Plank. Many of the ideas in this book were developed through conversations with additional colleagues in the Society of Christian Ethics and graduate students in my Aquinas seminars. For the spiritual, emotional, and bodily support that kept me (more or less) in one piece, I extend thanks to Sara Pamela Star, Angelika Kieffer,Wendelin Guentner, Rachel Gordon, Lori Baldwin, and my mother, Donna Fritz. ◆ ix ◆ I have received generous institutional support from the University of Iowa. I am grateful to my colleague and the chair of my department, Raymond Mentzer; to Dean Linda Maxson and Executive Associate Dean Raúl Curto of the College of LiberalArts and Sciences; and to Jay Semel and the staff of the Obermann Center forAdvanced Studies.I benefited greatly from being an Obermann Scholar.This book was supported by a Career Development Award from the Office of the Provost and an Arts and Humanities Initiative Grant from the Office of theVice President for Research. Parts of chapter 1 were presented in the form of a keynote address,“The Religious-Ethical Study of Emotion,” for the Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium in Religious Studies, Florida State University (2005). Chapter 2 has its basis in “The Religious Dimension of Ordinary Human Emotions,” originally presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics and later published in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.A portion of chapter 3 was drawn from my article,“Conceiving Emotions: Martha Nussbaum ’s Upheavals ofThought,” published in the Journal of Religious Ethics. I am thankful for everyone at Georgetown University Press who worked on this book, especially Richard Brown, the director of the press, who provided astute advice and enthusiastic support at every stage, and to James Keenan, who agreed to include the book in his MoralTraditions series. Finally, my husband, Rick Borchard, has been loving, encouraging, and patient beyond belief during the long time it took to write and revise this project. He has seen me through many challenges and kept me from losing sight of my goal. My children, Ben and Hannah, have lifted me up with their affection and trust and provided many unspoken assurances of the fundamental goodness of life, even in the face of tragedy. From these remarkable people, and from the rest of my family and friends, I have learned much about love. IfAquinas’s thought did not illuminate, deepen, and extend this love, I would not have continued my long conversation with him. x ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...

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