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| Notes on Style | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Background for St. Thomas's Treatise on Law | |
| Introduction to St. Thomas | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas | |
| St. Thomas and Jurisprudence | p. 5 |
| On Reading St. Thomas | p. 8 |
| The Structure of the Summa Theologiae | p. 11 |
| Scholasticism | p. 14 |
| St. Thomas's Approach to the Study of Law | p. 17 |
| The Nature of Definition and the Art of Defining | p. 20 |
| Introduction | p. 20 |
| The Nature of Definition | p. 21 |
| Types of Definition | p. 22 |
| The Ambiguity of Words | p. 26 |
| The Central Case | p. 31 |
| A Further Note on the Ambiguity of Words | p. 33 |
| On Analyzing and Evaluating a Definition of "Law" | p. 34 |
| General Doctrinal Background for the Treatise | p. 38 |
| Introduction | p. 38 |
| The Doctrine of the Four Causes | p. 40 |
| St. Thomas's World View | p. 45 |
| "Nature" and "Essence" | p. 48 |
| Human Nature | p. 54 |
| The Nature of Human Acts | p. 57 |
| "Rule and Measure" | p. 59 |
| Habit | p. 60 |
| The Speculative Intellect, the Practical Intellect, and Right Reason | p. 62 |
| Voluntarism vs. Practical Reasonableness | p. 65 |
| The Virtues | p. 66 |
| Happiness: The Last End of Man | p. 76 |
| The Common Good | p. 79 |
| Obligation | p. 81 |
| A Synopsis of St. Thomas's Doctrine of Natural Law | p. 85 |
| St. Thomas's Sources and His Use of Them | p. 94 |
| The Use of Auctoritates | p. 94 |
| The Auctores Quoted in the Treatise | p. 103 |
| St. Thomas Aquinas: The Treatise on Law [Being Summa Theologiae, I-II, QQ. 90 Through 97] | |
| Question 90: De Essentia Legis | p. 118 |
| Article 1 | p. 118 |
| Article 2 | p. 127 |
| Article 3 | p. 135 |
| Article 4 | p. 140 |
| Question 91: De Legum Diversitate | p. 148 |
| Article 1 | p. 150 |
| Article 2 | p. 155 |
| Article 3 | p. 160 |
| Article 4 | p. 166 |
| Article 5 | p. 172 |
| Article 6 | p. 178 |
| Question 92: De Effectibus Legis | p. 185 |
| Article 1 | p. 185 |
| Article 2 | p. 192 |
| Question 93: De Lege Aeterna | p. 199 |
| Article 1 | p. 199 |
| Article 2 | p. 206 |
| Article 3 | p. 210 |
| Article 4 | p. 215 |
| Article 5 | p. 222 |
| Article 6 | p. 227 |
| Question 94: De Lege Naturali | p. 235 |
| Article 1 | p. 235 |
| Article 2 | p. 241 |
| Article 3 | p. 251 |
| Article 4 | p. 256 |
| Article 5 | p. 264 |
| Article 6 | p. 270 |
| Question 95: De Lege Humana Secundum Se | p. 276 |
| Article 1 | p. 276 |
| Article 2 | p. 283 |
| Article 3 | p. 289 |
| Article 4 | p. 296 |
| Question 96: De Potestate Legis Humanae | p. 305 |
| Article 1 | p. 305 |
| Article 2 | p. 311 |
| Article 3 | p. 316 |
| Article 4 | p. 321 |
| Article 5 | p. 329 |
| Article 6 | p. 336 |
| Question 97: De Mutatione Legum | p. 342 |
| Article 1 | p. 343 |
| Article 2 | p. 348 |
| Article 3 | p. 353 |
| Article 4 | p. 360 |
| About the Translator | p. 367 |
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