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How to Read Aquinas
Aquinas was a 13th century university teacher educating students in an ecclesiastical tradition, but because he thought authority without reason could not make sense of truth, he taught questioning. This guide considers the role of regularity and chance in the natural world, mind and matter, freedom and moral obligation, law and society, suffering and evil, hope and hopele...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
February 1st 2007
by Granta UK
(first published January 2007)
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This is the first book I've read in the 'How to read' series of publications. The idea behind this series is not just to provide a concise biography of the subject, but to introduce the reader to the original writings in the company of an expert guide, in this case Timothy McDermott.
The subject here is Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), philosopher and theologian, who trained in the Dominican order and taught Theology at Paris University, and later in Naples. In fact, just a few weeks before readi...more
The subject here is Thomas Aquinas (1225-74), philosopher and theologian, who trained in the Dominican order and taught Theology at Paris University, and later in Naples. In fact, just a few weeks before readi...more
McDermott's previous work on an abridged translation of the Summa is brought to this brief (but by no means, insignificant) primer on Aquinas as a thinker and scholar. Each chapter begins with sections from Aquinas's work which become the basis for particular attention to what McDermott sees as foundations to reading and understanding Thomas. Every effort is made to 'bridge' the conceptual world of Thomas to our own, but there are moments (for instance in the chapter on 'form') that further read...more
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