The Logic of Desire: Aquinas on Emotion

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by  Nicholas E. Lombardo

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The Logic of Desire
Aquinas on Emotion
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nicholas e. lombardo, o.p.
The Catholic University of America Press
Washington, D.C.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lombardo, Nicholas E. (Nicholas Emerson)
The logic of desire : Aquinas on emotion / Nicholas E. Lombardo.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
isbn 978-0-8132-1797-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Thomas, Aquinas,
Saint, 1225?–1274. 2. Emotions. 3. Thomas, Aquinas, Saint,
1225?–1274. Summa theologica. I. Title.
b765.t54l59 2011
128'.37—dc22 2010021133
To my father, my mother, and my sister

What does a man do when he finds himself living after an age
has ended and he can no longer understand himself because
the theories of man of the former age no longer work and the
theories of the new age are not yet known, for even the name of
the new age is not known, and so everything is upside down,
people feeling bad when they should feel good, good when
they should feel bad?
What a man does is start afresh as if he were newly come
into a new world, which in fact it is; start with what he knows
for sure, look at the birds and beasts, and like a visitor from
Mars newly landed on earth notice what is different about man.
Walker Percy, “The Delta Factor”
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More tortuous than all else is the human heart,
beyond remedy; who can understand it?
I, the Lord, alone probe the mind
and test the heart
To reward everyone according to his ways,
according to the merit of his deeds.
Jeremiah 17:9–10

Contents
Preface xi
Introduction 1
1 The Passions of the Soul 20
2 The Structure of the Passions 49
3 The Affections of the Will 75
4 Passion, Reason, and Virtue 94
5 Original Sin, Grace, and Human Affectivity 118
6 The Flourishing of Human Affectivity 148
7 The Affectivity of Christ 201
8 A Preliminary Evaluation of Aquinas on Emotion 224
9 Toward a Contemporary Theology of Emotion 250
Conclusion 272
Bibliography 275
Index of Citations 301
General Index 307