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In this comprehensive anthology, twenty-seven outstanding scholars from North America and Europe address every major aspect of Thomas Aquinas’ understanding of morality and comment on his remarkable legacy. While there has been a revival of interest in recent years in the ethics of St. Thomas, no single work has yet fully examined the basic moral arguments and content of Aquinas’ major moral...

Kevin White The theme of the “passions of the soul” invites reflection both because of its moral and practical urgency and because of its vivid contribution to theoretical consideration of human nature. Analogously, Aquinas’s unprecedentedly elaborate “treatise” on the passions is of interest both for its part in the great argument of the Summa theologiae, where it is subordinated to the goal of clarifying the action by which the rational creature finds
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