Chapter 2 Habitus in the Roman Catholic Tradition: Context and Challenges

In: Habits in Mind
Author:
Brian Patrick Green
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41–57
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004342958_004

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This essay provides an introduction to the relation of habitus as a concept to Catholic ethical thinking and the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas in particular, and it argues in the first half that habitus plays a central role in Thomas's thought and Catholic ethics in general. The second half of the article then addresses three contemporary challenges: the challenge that our sense of teleology is a mistaken biological byproduct, the challenge denying conceptions of natural kinds, and the challenge of the is-ought distinction. Catholic virtue ethics is able to meet these challenges, and it provides a superior account compared to naturalistic alternatives.

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Habits in Mind

Integrating Theology, Philosophy, and the Cognitive Science of Virtue, Emotion, and Character Formation

Series:  Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion, Volume: 7
Cover Habits in Mind
E-Book ISBN:
9789004342958
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2017

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