Tommaso d’Aquino e la compassione
Journal title SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)
Author/s Fabrizio Amerini
Publishing Year 2024 Issue 2023/78 Language Italian
Pages 14 P. 26-39 File size 111 KB
DOI 10.3280/LAS2023-078003
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Did Thomas Aquinas, one of the leading medieval philosophers and theologians, consider compassion in his works? And if he did, how did he describe it? As we might ex¬pect, the answer to the first question is positive, and in this essay I shall propose a recon¬struction of some texts in which Thomas discusses compassion in order to answer the se¬cond question as well. I shall prove that for Thomas compassion is not merely a feeling of sorrow and sadness for a person’s misfortunes, but also a virtue that determines an open¬ness of human beings toward the others. Compassion, thus, results in a movement that puts a bridge between two dimensions of human beings: on the one hand, it is a feeling depen¬dent on our experiences, but on the other hand, it is also a virtue dependent on our will, which is why compassion cannot be disregarded in a serious ethical theory.
Keywords: Thomas Aquinas, compassion, ethics
Fabrizio Amerini, Tommaso d’Aquino e la compassione in "SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA)" 78/2023, pp 26-39, DOI: 10.3280/LAS2023-078003