Aquinas: Basic Works

Aquinas: Basic WorksCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781624661242 Year: 2014 Publisher: Hackett Publishing Description: Drawn from a wide range of writings and featuring state of the art translations, Basic Works offersconvenient access to Thomas Aquinas' most important discussions of nature, being and essence,divine and human nature, and ethics and human action. The translations all capture Aquinas's sharp, transparent style and display terminologicalconsistency. Many were

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781624661242
Year: 2014
Publisher: Hackett Publishing


Description:




Drawn from a wide range of writings and featuring state-of-the-art translations, Basic Works offersconvenient access to Thomas Aquinas' most important discussions of nature, being and essence,divine and human nature, and ethics and human action.The translations all capture Aquinas's sharp, transparent style and display terminologicalconsistency. Many were originally published in the acclaimed translation-cum-commentary series


The Hackett Aquinas, edited by Robert Pasnau and Jeffrey Hause. Others appear here for the firsttime: Eleonore Stump and Stephen Chanderbahn's translation of On the Principles of Nature,Peter King's translation of On Being and Essence, and Thomas Williams' translations of thetreatises On Happiness and On Human Acts from the Summa theologiae.Basic Works will enable students to immerse themselves in Aquinas's thought by offering hisfundamental works without internal abridgements. It will also appeal to anyone in search of anup-to-date, one-volume collection containing Aquinas' essential philosophical contributions—from the Five Ways to the immortality of the soul, and from the nature of happiness to virtuetheory, and on to natural law.