Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker

by F. C. Copleston

Overview

Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology work together in harmony), Aquinas was remarkable for the way in which he used and developed this legacy of ancient thought--an achievement which led his contemporaries to regard him as an advanced thinker.

Father Copleston's lucid and stimulating book examines this extraordinary man--whose influence is perhaps greater today than in his own lifetime--and his trought, relating his ideas wherever possible to problems as they are discussed today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140136746
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/30/1956
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	760,307
Product dimensions:	5.04(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.73(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note
1. Introductory
2. The World and Metaphysics
3. God and Creation
4. Man (1): Body and Soul
5. Man (2): Morality and Society
6. Thomism
Bibliographical Notes
Index