XIII century theology usually accounted for the dynamics of moral action by drawing the distinction between 'bonum in genere' and 'bonum ex circumstantiis', that is, between a merely appropriate act and one rightly “informed” by multiple determinants (time, space, intention, etc.). This moral language initially emerges with authors such as Peter Lombard and Philip the Chancellor, and is then taken up by Albert the Great, who reworks these categories by combining them with Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean and a 'sententia' on the nature of goodness from pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite’s 'De divinis nominibus'. This reworking results in a conception that the Dominican employs in the context of biblical exegesis to comment on the first line of the Book of Job, where the protagonist is said to be “a simple man”.
«Et erat vir ille simplex». Albert the Great on the Dynamics of Moral Action, Aristotle’s Doctrine of the Mean, and the Virtue of Job
Vorcelli, Marco
2023
Abstract
XIII century theology usually accounted for the dynamics of moral action by drawing the distinction between 'bonum in genere' and 'bonum ex circumstantiis', that is, between a merely appropriate act and one rightly “informed” by multiple determinants (time, space, intention, etc.). This moral language initially emerges with authors such as Peter Lombard and Philip the Chancellor, and is then taken up by Albert the Great, who reworks these categories by combining them with Aristotle’s doctrine of the mean and a 'sententia' on the nature of goodness from pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite’s 'De divinis nominibus'. This reworking results in a conception that the Dominican employs in the context of biblical exegesis to comment on the first line of the Book of Job, where the protagonist is said to be “a simple man”.
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