TITLE:
The Role of Courage in Intellectual Work
AUTHORS:
Liliana Beatriz Irizar
KEYWORDS:
Moral Virtues, Intellectual Work, Courage, Patience, Constancy, Perseverance, Magnanimity, Presumption, Ambition, Vainglory, Obstinacy, Arrogance, Aristotle, Saint Thomas Aquinas
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.5 No.9,
July
21,
2014
ABSTRACT: Intellectual
life is not a thing apart from the humanizing and moralizing influences that
moral virtues provide. Saint Thomas’s teachings about moral virtues suggest how
essential he considers them for a flourishing speculative life. He makes all
this very clear in the Second Part of the Summa Theologiae. The potential parts of fortitude which
have a crucial role in intellectual work are patience, perseverance and
magnanimity. In this article I show how these potential virtues act in
speculative life.