RT Article
T1 Revisiting Aquinas on the Passion of Despair
JF New blackfriars
VO 102
IS 1097
SP 123
OP 138
A1 Bobier, Christopher
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1780360312
AB The passion of despair, according to Thomas Aquinas, is an appetitive movement away from a future arduous good that is impossible to attain. Criticism of his account of despair abounds. Nicholas Lombardo argues that despair cannot be proper passion because the appetite cannot move away from a good. Eric D'Arcy and Susan James argue that Aquinas's description of passions as movements casts doubt on his understanding of some passions, including despair. Michael Miller and John Patrick Reid deny that despair can be morally praiseworthy and conducive to action. In this paper, I defend Aquinas's account of the passion of despair from these criticisms.
K1 Passion
K1 Despair
K1 Thomas Aquinas
DO 10.1111/nbfr.12519