St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics: A Norton Critical Edition

by Thomas Aquinas and Paul E. Sigmund

Book Overview

The selections not only include St. Thomas Aquinas's views on government, law, war, property, and sexual ethics, but also provide the theological, epistemological, and psychological background for his political and ethical thought, including the Five Proofs on the existence of God and Aquinas's theories of knowledge, the soul, the purpose of man, and the order of the universe. Throughout the book, footnotes explain technical terms and historical,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393952436
• ISBN13: 9780393952438
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

The Thinner Aquinas

This book is "The Thinner Aquinas," a targeted text specifically focusing on Aquinas's political and ethical writings.Incluced are obvious selections from Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica (Five Ways of God's Existence and Essay on Law), but also included are excerpts from "De Regimine Principum."There are hidden treasures in the back, excerpts from backgound sources and essays that influenced and were influenced by Thomisitic thought.This book is geared towards a poltical scientist and poltical philosopher. For the theologian or the philosopher, however, I would reccomed Penguin Classics "Selected Writings."PS--Nice picture on the cover!

A truly excellent anthology of Thomistic thought

This is a truly excellent selection of Thomistic writing, both by the Angelic Doctor and his critics and modern-day followers. It is not only comprehensive on the subject of Aquinas's politics and ethics but it is a good introduction to Thomism and natural law theory in general. Mortimer Adler's spanking of Bill Moyers on the subject of objective ethics is worth the price of the book just by itself.