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14 de jun. de 2022 · 1. Introduction. As Aquinas’s treatment of ethics in his Summa theologiae (ST) and other works makes clear, his is a virtue-based ethics.He does sometimes discuss moral principles or rules. 1 So, for example, in ST he devotes one question each to the precepts of justice and of fortitude. 2 But the precepts of justice turn out to be simply the ten commandments, and the precept of fortitude ...
Thomas Aquinas deserves to be remembered for reconciling faith with reason, thereby saving Western civilisation from turning its back on science and Greek an...
In presenting the natural law theory of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), primary attention shall be given to its most mature formulation, which is contained in Questions 90–97 of the First of Second Part of the Summa theologiae (Aquinas 1947; for the evolution of this theory cf Vendemiati 2011).However, the Treatise on Law shall not be separated from the context in which is inserted.
24 de mar. de 2008 · The revival of interest in Aquinas has run simultaneously with the rise of interest in Aristotle, on whose philosophy Aquinas based his own. On Aquinas is a masterly work of exposition written with breathtaking clarity.By the use of simple modern analogy, McCabe brings Aquinas's thought to life and underlines the crucial influence of Aquinas on our own contemporary thought.
Introduction Natural law ethics goes back to Aristotle and his theory of telos; that everything has a nature which directs it towards a particular end goal. Aquinas Christianised this idea, adding that it is the Christian God who set a thing’s telos according to his omnibenevolent plan for the universe. Christian ethics is most associated…
Aquinas developed a theological system that synthesized Western Christian (and predominantly Roman Catholic) theology with the philosophy of the ancient Greek thinker Aristotle (384–322 bce), particularly as it had been interpreted by Aristotle’s later Islamic commentators. In his Summa Theologica, which he intended as a primer for theology students, Aquinas devised five arguments for the ...
To consult the complete works of St. Thomas in Latin, see the Corpus Thomisticum. For a continually updated bibliography of St. Thomas in English, see Thérèse Bonin's Thomas Aquinas in English: A Bibliography. Cf. also the Aquinas Institute's online Latin-English editions; get a random St. Thomas quote. Major Theological Works.
