Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Achilles and Socrates: Ancient Attempts to Integrate Virtue, Death, and Human Perfection
Chapter 2. Practical Reason, Perfection, and Finitude in Aquinas
Chapter 3. Death and Human Perfection in Aquinas
Chapter 4. The Role of Courage in Aquinas's Account of Human Perfection
Chapter 5. Aquinas on Courage, Martyrdom, and the Common Good
Chapter 6. Contemporary Exemplarist Virtue Theory and Moral Motivation in the Face of Death
Chapter 7. The Prospect and Limitations of "Thomistic Moral Exemplarism"
Selected Bibliography
Index