Aquinas: Political Writings
Part of Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
- Real Author: Thomas Aquinas
- Editor and Translator: R. W. Dyson, University of Durham
- Date Published: October 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521375955
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Thomas Aquinas (1225–74) is a massive figure in the history of western thought and of the Catholic church. In this major addition to the Cambridge Texts series Robert Dyson (whose modern rendition of Augustine's City of God has already been widely acclaimed) has chosen texts by Aquinas that show his development of a Christian version of the philosophy of Aristotle, its contrast with the Augustinian thought that had coloured so much political thinking in the previous eight centuries, and St Thomas's views as to the purpose of government, constitutions, and the relations between secular and ecclesiastical power. Property, slavery, and usury are fully covered, as are St Thomas's celebrated and influential writings on law. The translations are extremely accessible and the whole is supported by all of the usual series features designed to assist the student reader, including brief biographies, notes for further reading and a concise critical introduction.
Read more- Major new selection of principal political writings of perhaps the greatest medieval thinker
- Robert Dyson's rendition in the CTPT series of Augustine: City of God already widely acclaimed
- Numerous student-friendly features including accurate translations, notes for further reading and brief biographies of major figures
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'For all involved in teaching and studying political thought this is a most welcome volume.' Contemporary Review
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- Date Published: October 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521375955
- length: 358 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 139 x 26 mm
- weight: 0.515kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Brief chronology
Bibliography
1. Government and politics
2. Obedience
3. Law
4. Right, justice and judgment
5. Property relations
6. War, sedition and killing
7. Heresy, apostasy and unbelief
Biographical glossary
Index.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
- Aquinas and the Natural Law
- Classical Political Theory
- Classical Political Thought
- Classical and Medieval Political Thought
- Early Political Thought
- Introduction to Political Philosophy
- Political Theory: Plato to Machiavelli
- Political Thought I
- Sovereignty
- Thomas Aquinas on Justice and Law
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