1st Edition

The Philosophy Of Aquinas

By Robert Pasnau, Christopher Shields Copyright 2004
290 Pages
by Routledge

274 Pages
by Routledge

290 Pages
by Routledge

This book introduces Thomas Aquinas's own principal fascinations in philosophy: rational theology, metaphysics, human nature, philosophy of mind, and value theory. It offers an introduction to his overarching explanatory framework in a distinctive deployment of an approach familiar from Aristotle.

Preface -- Life and Work -- Aquinas's Explanatory Framework: The Four Causes -- Aquinas's Metaphysical Framework: Being and Essence -- God's Existence and Nature -- The Order of the Universe -- The Human Soul and the Human Body -- Sense and Intellect -- The Goal of Human Life -- Ethics -- Catalog of Works

Biography

Robert Pasnauan, Christain