ABSTRACT

This book introduces Thomas Aquinas's own principal fascinations in philosophy: rational theology, metaphysics, human nature, philosophy of mind, and value theory. It offers an introduction to his overarching explanatory framework in a distinctive deployment of an approach familiar from Aristotle.

chapter 1|20 pages

Life and Work

chapter 4|40 pages

God's Existence and Nature

chapter 5|32 pages

The Order of the Universe

chapter 6|22 pages

The Human Soul and the Human Body

chapter 7|21 pages

Sense and Intellect

chapter 8|19 pages

The Goal of Human Life

chapter 9|25 pages

Ethics