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Title: On Law, Morality, and Politics by Aquinas, Saint, Thomas ISBN: 0-87220-031-0 Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $11.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: High quality writing on these subjects
Comment: 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 close to Aristotle, whom's version the Bible was of till then. So one could say that he was sort of a predecessor for the great humanists...
Aquinas tries to restore the autonomy of nature and reason, in full harmony with (Christian) faith. The result of his work is genial, both what concerns the scholastic ànd "thomistic" style as well as for the special way of exploring and investigation through which he succeeds to "restore in faith".
Everyone who wants to read Aquinas should know that the author writes in a very specific, difficult way. It looks from time to time he opposes to himself, but after studying his readings one can only conclude that this is REAL top-of-the-shelf literature (for those esp. who like theology, philosophy, politics,...).
Rating: 3
Summary: Interesting but hard read
Comment: 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 of each section is rigid: Aquinas poses a question, gives three objections to his answer, quotes other sources to support his answer (be it Greek philosophers, early Christians like Augustine, or the Bible) and then explains his answer and refutes the objections. To read it straight through is tedious, but to read several sections and consider Aquinas' whole thoughts on subjects can be very interesting, especially in the study of philosophy or theology.
For a student of theology or philosophy, I think Aquinas is important to read and understand, even if from another version of his writings. This book does a good job in presenting Aquinas. Aquinas and his beliefs are more interesting than the reading itself, but it's worth a look if you are interested in studying faith and theology or philosophy. As a light read, though, this is not the book.
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Title: The Political Writings of St. Augustine by Augustine, Henry Paolucci, Dino Bigongiari ISBN: 0895267047 Publisher: Gateway Editions Pub. Date: 01 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Nicomachean Ethics (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS) by Aristotle, David Ross, W. D. Ross, J. L. Ackrill, J. O. Urmson ISBN: 019283407X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Politics (Penguin Classics) by Aristotle, T.A. Sinclair, T. A. Sinclair, Trevor J. Saunders ISBN: 0140444211 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1992 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Republic (Dover Thrift Editions) by Plato, Benjamin Jowett ISBN: 0486411214 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $2.50 |
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Title: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: With on a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns by Immanuel Kant, James W. Ellington ISBN: 087220166X Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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