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This volume in the Library of Christian Classics series offers selections from the Summa Theologica that best represent Thomas Aquinas' views on the moral and spiritual world in which we live.Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars...

The ""Book of Causes"" was judged by Thomas Aquinas to have been abstracted from Proclus' ""Elements of Theology"". This commentary is a distinct philosophical work which provides an extended view of his approach to Neoplatonic thought and functions as a guide to his metaphysics.

Offers a translation from the Commentary. This book is useful for students of Thomas' moral philosophy, moral theology, and philosophical theology. It includes texts from Aquinas' first (Parisian) Commentary as well as from his second (Roman) attempt at a commentary.

In his sixth-century work known as the ""De hebdomadibus,"" Boethius (ca. 480-524) poses the question of how created things or substances can be good just as they are without being the same as the source of all goodness, God. The introduction provides a background to understanding Boethius' views.

Creating a summary of all human knowledge may not be the sort of undertaking we begin in the twenty-first century, but there is still room on our bookshelves for a classic--Summa Theologica, one of the world's oldest and greatest masterpieces. St. Thomas Aquinas has much to teach us--most especially how to confront the classic questions that are still with us after centuries of thought.

St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers, and The Summa of Theology.