10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PUSILLANIMITY»
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pusillanimity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pusillanimity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Summa Theologiae: Courage
article 2 is pusillanimity opposed to magnanimity? the second point:1 i. It appears
that pusillanimity is not opposed to magnanimity. For Aristotle says2 that the
pusillanimous man does not know himself; if he did, he would seek the goods of ...
Thomas Aquinas, Anthony Ross, P. G. Walsh, 2006
2
Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)
Therefore pusillanimity is not opposed to magnanimity. Obj. 3. Further,
pusillanimity seems to proceed from inordinate fear: hence it is written (Isa. xxxv.
4): Say to the fainthearled: Take courage and fear not. It also seems to proceed
from ...
3
Receptive Human Virtues: A New Reading of Jonathan Edwards's ...
It is worthwhile to explore this question by considering more carefully whether a
humble Edwardsean moral agent is subject to what Aquinas calls the sin of
pusillanimity. Pusillanimity and Fortitude in Augustine and Edwards Aquinas
presents ...
Elizabeth Agnew Cochran, 2011
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Dante's Hermeneutics of Salvation: Passages to Freedom in ...
Furthermore, pride is also opposed to pusillanimity; thus, neither pride nor
humility can be fully understood without understanding the defect of passivity or '
small- mindedness' (pusillanimity). The image of the angelic butterfly that we are '
born ...
Christine O'Connell Baur, 2007
Its opposite is pusillanimity. Aquinas illustrated this vice (one with an Aristotelian
name) through a Gospel tale, the story of "the servant who buried in the ground
the money received from his master, and did nothing with it, due to the kind of
fear ...
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Happiness and the Christian Moral Life: An Introduction to ...
Pusillanimity is a dangerous habit to acquire because through it we not only lose
our taste for what is truly good and promising, but in lowering our hopes also
grow comfortable with mediocrity. A mag! nanimous life will always challenge us,
...
QUESTION CXXXIII. OF PUSILLANIMITY. ARTICLE I.——-Is pusillanimity a sin ?
R. Everything that is contrary to natural inclination is a sin, because it is contrary
to the law of nature.1 Now there is a natural inclination in every agent to put forth
...
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Leviathan, Parts I and II
Pusillanimity. Magnanimity. Valour. Liberality. Miserableness. Kindness. Natural
lust. Luxury. The passion of love. Jealousy. Revengefulness. Curiosity. 17. The
same, with hope of avoiding that hurt by resistance, Courage. 18. Sudden
courage ...
Thomas Hobbes, A.P. Martinich, 2005
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Encyclopaedia Perthensis; Or Universal Dictionary of the ...
L'Bstrong/. Sfiai. * PUSILLANIMITY, n.f. [pusillanimity Fr. ; — 'Tis common to talk
of dying for a friend ; but pufillus aud animus, Lat.] Cowardice'; meanness when it
comes to the pujh, tis no more than talk, of spirit.-^The property of your excellent ...
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A Thesaurus of Old English: Index
08.02 01 (Of living creatures) fierceness, roughness earg 06.02.07.07 Cowardice
, pusillanimity; 12.08.06.01.02 Lacking moral good earge 07.03 Evil eargebland
01. 01. 03. 01. 02.06 Surging, rolling, heaving of waves eargespeca 12.02.02.02
...
Jane Roberts, Christian Kay, Lynne Grundy, 2000
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PUSILLANIMITY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pusillanimity is used in the context of the following news items.
Jeremy Corbyn: a sinner against the Third Way
In short, their crime is to refuse to genuflect at the altar of the Third Way, where pusillanimity is a virtue and gutlessness is next to godliness. A senior Guardian ... «Spiked, Jul 15»
Rick Perry Shows the GOP How It's Done
The pusillanimity that has characterized much of the sprawling GOP 2016 presidential field's reaction to the cascading series of injudicious comments that ... «Commentary Magazine, Jul 15»
This Professor Was Fired for Saying 'Fuck No' in Class
The misuse of sexual-harassment policies by pusillanimous college .... More significant, however, is the pusillanimity of campus bureaucrats who are terrified of ... «The Nation., Jul 15»
Through a Glass, Dishonestly
He was under no pressure, except that of his own pusillanimity, to say any such thing, which is in flat contradiction both to history and to the state of the world ... «City Journal, Jun 15»
With Mike Smith's timid ways in the rearview mirror, can the the …
[Mike] Smith ended his career in Atlanta with a truly remarkable tribute to pusillanimity, as the Falcons only went for it one time on fourth down in a non-catch-up ... «The Falcoholic, Apr 15»
St. John Paul II and the “Tyranny of the Possible”
... in the world today can take heart from what John Paul II said to young people in Cracow in June 1979: “Be afraid only of thoughtlessness and pusillanimity.”. «First Things, Apr 15»
Letters: Defence spending guarantees George Osborne a stable …
Given the pusillanimity of the supra-national authorities, what confidence can we have in their response to future breaches of international law by Mr Putin? «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
We must take a hard line against Islamic extremism, blasts LEO …
Tragically, given the pusillanimity of our politicians and the rapid growth in the Muslim population it is impossible to see how we can ever be at peace again. «Express.co.uk, Feb 15»
Westminster Abbey and Charlie Hebdo
What they were being was pusillanimous. And that pusillanimity is the direct result of what Waugh saw coming during World War II, when the Abbey was used to ... «National Review Online, Jan 15»
Book Asks: Are Terrorists Cowards?
... and he can claim considerable credibility: he's written what he says is the first scholarly book on pusillanimity. Walsh's book argues that the misuse of “coward” ... «BU Today, Jan 15»
