Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law
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Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law

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Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law

About this book

Natural moral law stands at the center of Western ethics and jurisprudence and plays a leading role in interreligious dialogue. Although the greatest source of the classical natural law tradition is Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law, the Treatise is notoriously difficult, especially for nonspecialists. J. Budziszewski has made this formidable work luminous. This book - the first classically styled, line-by-line commentary on the Treatise in centuries - reaches out to philosophers, theologians, social scientists, students, and general readers alike. Budziszewski shows how the Treatise facilitates a dialogue between author and reader. Explaining and expanding upon the text in light of modern philosophical developments, he expounds this work of the great thinker not by diminishing his reasoning, but by amplifying it.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright information
  5. Dedication
  6. Analytical Table of Contents
  7. Contents of the Online Companion to the Commentary
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Ante studium (Before Study)
  10. Introduction
  11. I Law Itself, in General: Questions 90–92
  12. II The Parts of Law: Questions 93–108
  13. Index
  14. Title page
  15. Online contents
  16. The Context of The Selections From Questions 98–108
  17. St. Thomas’s Prologue to Questions 90–92: Of the Essence of Law Discussion
  18. St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 91: Of the Various Kinds of Law
  19. St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 92: Of the Effects of Law
  20. St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 93: Of the Eternal Law
  21. St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 94: Of the Natural Law
  22. St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 95: Of Human Law
  23. St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 96: Of the Power of Human Law
  24. St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 97: Of Change in Laws
  25. St. Thomas’s Prologue to Question 100: Of the Moral Precepts of the Old Law