Selected Philosophical Writings

by Aquinas, Thomas; McDermott, Timothy

• ISBN13: 9780192829467
• ISBN10: 0192829467
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-12-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to go beyond it--to explore, for example, spiritual revelation--makes his work as fresh and readable today as it was seven centuries ago. This accessible new translation offers thirty-eight substantial passages not only from the indispensable Summa Theologicae, but from many other works, fully illustrating the breadth and progression of Aquinas's philosophy. It is an ideal introduction to this key figure in the philosophy of religion.

Table of Contents

Selected Philosophical Writings	p. i
Acknowledgements	p. v
Introduction	p. xi
Note on Sources and Text	p. xxxiii
Select Bibliography	p. xxxiv
on Natural Science, Mathematics, and Metaphysics	p. 1
Structures of Thought	p. 1
Structures of Things in General	p. 51
Actual and Potential Being	p. 65
Matter, Form, Agent, and Goal	p. 67
Substance and Accidents, Action and Passion	p. 80
Substance and Accidents, Action and Passion	p. 90
the Ladder of Being	p. 115
How Elements Are Present Within Compounds	p. 117
How Elements Are Present Within Compounds	p. 121
How Elements Are Present Within Compounds	p. 129
Inner and Outer Senses	p. 138
Mind [a]	p. 145
Mind [b]	p. 150
Mind [c]	p. 152
Mind [c]	p. 156
Mind [c]	p. 169
Mind [c]	p. 171
Soul in Human Beings	p. 184
My Soul is Not Me	p. 192
God in Himself	p. 195
God is His Own Existence	p. 202
God is His Own Existence	p. 209
Do We Have Words for God?	p. 214
How We Know One Simple God by Many Concepts	p. 230
How We Know One Simple God by Many Concepts	p. 240
How We Know One Simple God by Many Concepts	p. 242
God as the Beginning of Things	p. 251
Creation as God's Doing	p. 251
Did Creation Occur in Time?	p. 263
Providence (a): the Ordered Universe	p. 270
Providence (b): Chance and Freedom	p. 277
Providence (c): How Evil is Caused	p. 284
Providence (c): How Evil is Caused	p. 289
is God at Work in Nature and in Will?	p. 297
God as the End of Things	p. 315
Moral Action	p. 342
Virtue	p. 390
Virtue	p. 409
Virtue	p. 421
Notes	p. 426
Index	p. 447
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