Books : On Law, Morality, and Politics
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by: Thomas Aquinas, Richard J. Regan, William P. Baumgarth
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 340.11
EAN: 9780872206632
ISBN: 0872206637
Label: Hackett Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: 2003-06
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 97959
Studio: Hackett Publishing Company
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The second edition of Aquinas, On Law, Morality, and Politics retains the selection of texts presented in the first edition but offers them in new translations by Richard J. Regan—including that of his Aquinas, Treatise on Law (Hackett, 2000). A revised Introduction and glossary, an updated select bibliography, and the inclusion of summarizing headnotes for each of the units—Conscience, Law, Justice, Property, War and Killing, Obedience and Rebellion, and Practical Wisdom and Statecraft—further enhance its usefulness.
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Rating:  - High quality writing on these subjects
To my knowledge only a threesome authors-philosophers (Sartre, Nietzsche and Macchiavelli) would have been able as well to tell "useful" words on this combination of topics Aquinas chose.
The author - few are more original than Thomas - looks back on, examines some of the most basic, important questions that interest humanity (human nature and ethics, politics and law..) and explores them in the light of Christian faith, as well as ancient philosophy. Of the "ancients" he looks in particular ... Read More
Rating:  - Interesting but hard read
The excerpts of Thomas Aquinas' "Summa Theologica" are well-presented in this book. Aquinas blends together his Christian faith and ancient philosophy, especially Aristotle, to examine questions about law, human nature, faith, politics, and ethics. I read this for a class on political philosophy and found it particularly interesting, a bridge between the ancients (Aristotle, Plato, Sophocles) and the more modern philosophers (Machiavellie, Locke, Hobbes).
It is also a hard read. The structure ... Read More
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