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    Virtues of the Will: The Transformation of Ethics in the Late Thirteenth Century.Bonnie Dorrick Kent - 1995 - Catholic University of Amer Press.
    In Virtues of the Will, Bonnie Kent traces late thirteenth-century debates about the freedom of the will, moral weakness, and other issues that helped change the course of Western ethics. She argues that one cannot understand the controversies of the period or see Duns Scotus in perspective without paying due attention to his immediate predecessors: the influential secular master Henry of Ghent, Walter of Bruges, William de la Mare, Peter Olivi, and other Franciscans. Seemingly radical doctrines in Scotus often turn (...)
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  2. PART 4 107 Weakness and integrity 8 Moral growth and the unity of the virtues 109.Bonnie Kent, Jan Steutel, David Carr, John Haldane, Paul Crittenden, Eamonn Callan, Joel J. Kupperman, Ben Spiecker & Kenneth A. Strike - 1999 - In David Carr & Jan Willem Steutel (eds.), Virtue ethics and moral education. New York: Routledge.
     
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    Our inalienable ability to sin: Peter Olivi’s rejection of asymmetrical freedom.Bonnie Kent - 2017 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 25 (6):1073-1092.
    From the time of Augustine to the late thirteenth century, leading Christian thinkers agreed that freedom requires the ability to make good choices, but not the ability to make bad ones. If freedom required the ability to sin, they reasoned, neither God nor the angels nor the blessed in heaven could be free. This essay examines the work of Peter Olivi, the first medieval philosopher known to reject the asymmetrical conception of freedom. Olivi argues that the ability to sin is (...)
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  4. Evil in later medieval philosophy.Bonnie Dorrick Kent - 2007 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45 (2):177-205.
    This essay presents a critical review of recent literature on evil in medieval philosophy, as understood by thinkers from Anselm of Canterbury onward. "Evil" is taken to include not only serious, deliberate wrongdoing, but also everyday sins done from ignorance or passion. Special attention is paid to Aquinas's De Malo, Giles of Rome and the aftermath of the 1277 Condemnation, scholarly disputes about Scotus's teachings, and commentaries on the Nicomachean Ethics by Walter Burley, Gerald Odonis, and John Buridan.
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  5. Moral growth and the unity of the virtues.Bonnie Kent - 1999 - In David Carr & Jan Willem Steutel (eds.), Virtue ethics and moral education. New York: Routledge. pp. 109--124.
     
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    Transitory vice: Thomas Aquinas on incontinence.Bonnie Dorrick Kent - 1989 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 27 (2):199-223.
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    Aquinas and weakness of will.Bonnie Kent - 2007 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (1):70–91.
    Aquinas’s admirers, reacting against Donald Davidson’s criticisms of hirn, commonly argue (a) that the will does play a role in Aquinas’s account of incontinence, and (b) that his explanation of incontinent action turns on the weakness of the will. The first part of this paper argues that they are correct about (a) but wholly mistaken about (b). Aquinas rarely even mentions the weakness of the will, and he neverinvokes it to explain why someone acts counter to her own better judgment. (...)
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  8. Habits and virtues.Bonnie Kent - 2002 - In Stephen J. Pope (ed.), The Ethics of Aquinas. Georgetown University Press. pp. 116--130.
     
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  9. Dispositions and Moral Fallibility: The UnAristotelian Aquinas.Bonnie Kent - 2012 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 29 (2).
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    After MacIntyre: Critical Perspectives on the Work of Alasdair MacIntyre.Bonnie Kent - 1996 - Philosophical Quarterly 46 (185):524-526.
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    Augustine's ethics.Bonnie Kent - 2001 - In Eleonore Stump & Norman Kretzmann (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Augustine. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 205--233.
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    12 Rethinking Moral Dispositions.Bonnie Kent - 2002 - In Thomas Williams (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 352.
  13. The moral life.Bonnie Kent - 2003 - In Arthur Stephen McGrade (ed.), The Cambridge companion to medieval philosophy. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 231--253.
     
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    Justice, Passion, and Another’s Good: Aristotle Among the Theologians.Bonnie Kent - 2001 - In Jan A. Aertsen, Kent Emery & Andreas Speer (eds.), Nach der Verurteilung von 1277 / After the Condemnation of 1277: Philosophie und Theologie an der Universität von Paris im letzten Viertel des 13. Jahrhunderts. Studien und Texte / Philosophy and Theology at the University of Paris in the Last Quarter of. De Gruyter. pp. 704-718.
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    Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: Critical Essays.Leonard Boyle, Victor White, John Wippel, Peter Geach, Robert Pasnau, Anthony Kenny, Herbert McCabe, Eleonore Stump, Bonnie Kent & Fergus Kerr - 2005 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
    Thomas Aquinas was first and foremost a Christian theologian. Yet he was also one of the greatest philosophers of the Middle Ages. Drawing on classical authors, and incorporating ideas from Jewish and Arab sources, he came to offer a rounded and lasting account of the origin of the universe and of the things to be found within it, especially human beings.
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    Aristotle's Ethics, Situationist Psychology, and a Fourteenth-Century Debate.Bonnie Kent - 2008 - History of Philosophy Quarterly 25 (2):95 - 114.
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    Augustine's On the Good of Marriage and Infused Virtue in the Twelfth Century.Bonnie Kent - 2013 - Journal of Religious Ethics 41 (1):112-136.
    In the history of ethics, it remains remains unclear how Christians of the Middle Ages came to see God-given virtues as dispositions (habitus) created in the human soul. Patristic works could surely support other conceptions of the virtues given by grace. For example, one might argue that all such virtues are forms of charity, so that they must be affections of the soul, or that they consist in what the soul does, not anything the soul has. Scholars usually assume that (...)
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  18. Buridan on the value of emotions.Bonnie Kent - 2024 - In Spencer Johnston & Henrik Lagerlund (eds.), Interpreting Buridan: critical essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
     
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  19. ch. 6. Losable virtue : Aquinas on character and will.Bonnie Kent - 2013 - In Tobias Hoffmann, Jörn Müller & Matthias Perkams (eds.), Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics. New York: Cambridge University Press.
     
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    Happiness and the Willing Agent.Bonnie Kent - 2004 - Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 78:59-70.
    Contemporary philosophers who are concerned with the following three philosophical issues can learn much from Scotus: (1) the defense of agent-causal accounts of the will; (2) the search for common ground between ancient and Kantian ethics: and (3) the co-existence of free will and the capacity for sin in heaven.1) Free Will and Agent Causation: According to Scotus, the will moves itself to act, but does not cause itself. Human actions are done for reasons determinedby the agent; they are not (...)
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    Marcia L. Colish, Peter Lombard.Bonnie Dorrick Kent - 1996 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1):140-141.
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    Moral Provincialism.Bonnie Kent - 1994 - Religious Studies 30 (3):269 - 285.
    Suppose that I stand firmly in what Alasdair MacIntyre describes as the Thomistic tradition of moral enquiry. I try my best to recover a historical understanding of Aquinas's teachings, and I refuse to let my philosophical opponents set the terms of debate. Now suppose that you yourself are one of my opponents: a Buddhist, a Jew, a Muslim or perhaps a secular humanist. Finally, suppose that I have always found you a considerate neighbour, a friendly and responsible colleague, and a (...)
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    On Morals by William of Auvergne.Bonnie Kent - 2015 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 53 (1):157-158.
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    Peter Lombard.Bonnie Dorrick Kent - 1996 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 34 (1):140-142.
    14o JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 34: X .JANUARY t996 method of reading the dialogues in an ascending order of philosophical importance need not be reflected completely or consistently in the tetralogical scheme. I pass over the account of Thrasyllus' logos-theory which Tarrant derives from an elusive section of Porphyry's commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics in order to discuss the more important conclusions he draws in chapter 6, "The Neopythagorean Parmenides." By carefully sifting passages in Proclus' commentary on the Parmenides (...)
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    Speaking Theologically: The Concept of habitus in Peter Lombard and His Followers.Bonnie Kent - 2018 - In Nicolas Faucher & Magali Roques (eds.), The Ontology, Psychology and Axiology of Habits (Habitus) in Medieval Philosophy. Cham: Springer. pp. 67-85.
    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 (...)
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    The development of ethics: A historical and critical study. Volume I: From socrates to the reformation (review).Bonnie Kent - 2009 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 47 (4):pp. 619-620.
    ‘ The Development of Ethics’ proves a rather misleading title for Terence Irwin’s latest book. He describes it more accurately as “a selective historical and critical study in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism, its formation, elaboration, criticism, and defence” . ‘Socratic’ refers to Irwin’s method: not merely describing “a collective Socratic inquiry” historically but also evaluating it and taking part in it . Unlike Alasdair MacIntyre and J. B. Schneewind, who think that “a moral theory cannot (...)
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    The Good Will According to Gerald Odonis, Duns Scotus, and William of Ockham.Bonnie Kent - 1986 - Franciscan Studies 46 (1):119-139.
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    Disputed Questions on Virtue (review).Bonnie Kent - 2012 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (4):613-614.
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    Allan B. Wolter, trans., "Duns Scotus on the Will and Morality". [REVIEW]Bonnie Dorrick Kent - 1989 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 27 (2):303.
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    A Treatise on God as First Principle. [REVIEW]Bonnie Kent - 1986 - International Philosophical Quarterly 26 (3):298-300.
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    Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence in Medieval Philosophy. [REVIEW]Bonnie Kent - 1986 - Review of Metaphysics 39 (4):783-784.
    The chapters of this volume originated as papers presented at the Ohio State University, March 3-4, 1982. Students of philosophy and theology should find the work interesting, both as an introduction to medieval thought and as a source of insights into issues still disputed.
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    Emotion and peace of mind: From stoic agitation to Christian temptation. Richard Sorabji oxford: Oxford university press, 2000. Pp. XI, 499. [REVIEW]Bonnie Kent - 2005 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (1):245–247.
    The last decade has witnessed a dramatic revival of interest in Hellenistic philosophy. No longer can one complain that scholars pitch their tents on Aristotelian turf and refuse to move beyond it. Indeed, the burgeoning literature on Hellenistic philosophy might now raise doubts about whether an author breaks any new ground. Sorabji's latest book analyzes many of the same texts and issues explored in Martha Nussbaum's The Therapy of Desire ; and he, too, argues that ancient philosophical therapy can be (...)
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    Emotion and Peace of Mind. [REVIEW]Bonnie Kent - 2005 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (1):245-247.
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    István P. Bejczy, The Cardinal Virtues in the Middle Ages: A Study in Moral Thought from the Fourth to the Fourteenth Century. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 202.) Leiden: Brill, 2011. Pp. vii, 361. $136. ISBN: 9789004210141. [REVIEW]Bonnie Kent - 2013 - Speculum 88 (3):757-758.
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    Moral Dilemmas in Medieval Thought. [REVIEW]Bonnie Kent - 2012 - American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2):378-380.
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    Review of Brian Harding, Augustine and Roman Virtue[REVIEW]Bonnie Kent - 2009 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (7).
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    Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature. [REVIEW]Bonnie Kent - 2003 - Philosophical Review 112 (1):103-106.
    Despite its subtitle, Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature is far more than a philosophical study of Summa theologiae, part 1, qq. 75-89. Not only does Robert Pasnau venture into topics never mentioned in this section of the Summa, he draws freely on Aquinas’s disputed questions, his commentaries on Aristotle’s works, and many other texts, including a wide range of works in both contemporary philosophy and the history of philosophy writ large. Anthony Kenny’s Aquinas on Mind focuses on the same questions (...)
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