Treatise on Law, Saint Thomas Aquinas
Treatise on Law, Saint Thomas Aquinas
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Treatise on Law

Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas

Narrator: Robin Lawson

Unabridged: 3 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Law

Synopsis

Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian philosopher and Dominican friar who lived during the thirteenth century, was the greatest of the medieval theologians. His writings harmonized faith and reason, which resulted in a Christian form of rationalism. This treatise comprises questions 9097 of theSumma Theologica,in which St. Thomas presents a philosophical analysis of the nature and structure of law. Believing that law achieves its results by imposing moral obligations rather than outright force on those subject to it, he proceeds to explore vital questions about the essence of law, kinds of law, effects of law, eternal law, natural law, human law, and changes in law.

About Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) was an Italian Dominican priest of the Roman Catholic Church and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived in development or refutation of his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory. Thomas is held in the Catholic Church to be the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeremiah

Brilliant ideas. Difficult to parse. I truly love Aquinas. I just wish he wrote more like… well, pretty much anyone else. Except German philosophers. Anyone but German philosophers. 🤣......more

Goodreads review by Erik

This was the first book I completed upon enrolling into Loyola University Chicago's philosophy program, presumably for David Ozar's class on ethics. In this class we discussed Natural Law, Deontological, Utilitarian and Virtue ethical systems, Aquinas being representative of the former. So far as Na......more

Goodreads review by JR

Really good stuff. Even if you disagree with the content of Aquinas, you have to appreciate his clear and precise form of writing. He basically sets forth his topic (For example, 'On the effects of law') and his specific question related to the nature or definition of it (for example, "Is the effect......more

Goodreads review by Luke

Foundational stuff.......more

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