Authors: Eleonore Stump
ISBN-13: 9780415378987, ISBN-10: 0415378982
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2005
Edition: 1st Edition
Few philosophers or theologians exerted as much influence on the shape of Medieval thought as Thomas Aquinas. He ranks amongst the most famous of the Western philosophers and was responsible for almost single-handedly bringing the philosophy of Aristotle into harmony with Christianity. He was also one of the first philosophers to argue that philosophy and theology could support each other. The shape of metaphysics, theology, and Aristotelian thought today still bears the imprint of Aquinas work.
In this extensive and deeply researched study, Eleonore Stump enages Aquinas across the full range of his philosophical writings. She examines Aquinas' major works, Summa Theologiae and Summa Contra Gentiles and clearly assesses the vast range of Aquinas' thought from his metaphysics, theology, philosophy of mind and epistemology to his views on free will, action, the soul and ethics, law and politics. She considers the influence of Aquinas' thought on contemporary philosophy and why he should be still read today.
Preface | ||
List of abbreviations | ||
List of Aquinas's works | ||
Introduction: life and overview of Aquinas's thought | 1 | |
Pt. I | The ultimate foundation of reality | 33 |
1 | Metaphysics: a theory of things | 35 |
2 | Goodness | 61 |
3 | God's simplicity | 92 |
4 | God's eternity | 131 |
5 | God's knowledge | 159 |
Pt. II | The nature of human beings | 189 |
6 | Forms and bodies: the soul | 191 |
7 | The foundations of knowledge | 217 |
8 | The mechanisms of cognition | 244 |
9 | Freedom: action, intellect and will | 277 |
Pt. III | The nature of human excellence | 307 |
10 | A representative moral virtue: justice | 309 |
11 | A representative intellectual virtue: wisdom | 339 |
12 | A representative theological virtue: faith | 361 |
13 | Grace and free will | 389 |
Pt. IV | God's relationship to human beings | 405 |
14 | The metaphysics of the incarnation | 407 |
15 | Atonement | 427 |
16 | Providence and suffering | 455 |
Notes | 479 | |
Select bibliography | 581 | |
Index | 598 |