Santo Thomas Aquinas adalah seorang yuris, teolog, dan filsuf yang sangat berpengaruh dalam tradisi skolastisisme selain sebagai pendukung teologi kodrat yang paling menonjol dan populer. Pengaruhnya pada pemikiran Barat cukup besar, dan banyak filsafat modern yang mengembangkan ataupun menentang gagasan-gagasannya, khususnya dalam bidang etika, hukum kodrat, metafisika, dan teori politik. Kary…
Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good, first published in 2006, claims that contemporary theory and practice have much to gain from engaging Aquinas's normative concept of the common good and his way of reconciling religion, philosophy, and politics. Examining the relationship between personal and common goods, and the relation of virtue and law to both, Mary M. Keys shows why …
The great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas (1224/6-1274) was Dominican regent master in theology at the University of Paris, where he presided over a series of academic debates on ethical topics. This volume offers new translations of disputed questions on the nature of virtue. The introduction explains how Aquinas' theory of virtue fits into his conception of ethics as a whole, and clarifie…