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    Practicing Hope

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    In this essay, I consider how the theological virtue of hope might be practiced. I will first explain Thomas Aquinas’s account of this virtue, including its structural relation to the passion of hope, its opposing vices, and its relationship to the friendship of charity. Then, using narrative and character analysis from the film The Shawshank Redemption, I examine a range of hopeful and proto-hopeful practices concerning both the goods one hopes for and the power one relies on to attain those goods. In particular, I show how the film’s picture of the role friends and friendship play in catalyzing hope is a compelling metaphor for Christian hope’s reliance on Go

    Moral Education in the Classroom: A Lived Experiment

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    What would a course on ethics look like if it took into account Alasdair MacIntyre’s concerns about actually teaching students ethical practices? How could professors induct students into practices that prompt both reflection on their cultural formation and self-knowledge of the ways they have been formed by it? According to MacIntyre, such elements are prerequisites for an adequate moral education. His criticism of what he terms “Morality” includes the claim that most courses don’t even try to teach the right things. He charges that academic teaching has little if anything to do with character formation, whereas thick practices can transform lives in ways mere argument can never do. Even those who appreciate his arguments and agree with his criticisms, however, may find implementing more adequate forms of ethical instruction in the university classroom a tall order. My goal in this essay is to provide a sketch of my own experimental course on normative ethics in order to illustrate what teaching according to a more MacIntyrean program might look like

    Aquinas\u27s Virtues of Acknowledged Dependence: A New Measure of Greatness

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    Craig Steven Titus, ed., THE PSYCHOLOGY OF CHARACTER AND VIRTUE

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    The Roots of Despair

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    Nicholas M. Healy, Thomas Aquinas: Theologian of the Christian Life

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    What are You Guarding? Virtuous Anger and Lifelong Formation

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    A reconciliation of different approaches to anger in the Christian moral tradition, with cautions and recommendations for virtuous anger formation

    John Calvin and Virtue Ethics

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    Critical Works and Secondary Literature

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