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"There are readers of Aquinas's works, but Penguin's surpasses all by its sheer size, the very representative choice of texts, the excellent translations, and scholarly, informative introductions." -- Albert E. Gunn, "There are readers of Aquinas''s works, but Penguin''s surpasses all by its sheer size, the very representative choice of texts, the excellent translations, and scholarly, informative introductions." — Albert E. Gunn, "There are readers of Aquinas's works, but Penguin's surpasses all by its sheer size, the very representative choice of texts, the excellent translations, and scholarly, informative introductions." — Albert E. Gunn
Table of Content
Selected Writings - Thomas Aquinas Introduction Chronology A Note on the Texts Part One: Student (1245-56) 1. The Inaugural Sermons (1256) 2. On the Principles of Nature (1252-6) 3. On Being and Essence (1252-6) 4. The Nature of Theology. Commentary on Sentences I, Prologue (1252-4) 5. The Work of the Six Days of Creation. Commentary on Sentences 2.2, d. 12 (1252-4) Part Two: Master at Paris (1256-9) 6. Theology, Faith and Reason. On Boethius On the Trinity , 1-2 (1257) 7. How are Things Good? Exposition of On the Hebdomads of Boethius (1257) 8. The Meanings of Truth. Disputed Question on Truth , I (1256-9) 9. On the Teacher. Disputed Question on Truth , II (1256-9) 10. On Conscience. Disputed Question on Truth , 17 (1256-9) Part Three: Italy (1259-68) 11. Proof of God's Existence. Summa contra Gentiles , I, 9-14 (1259) 12. The Human Good. Summa contra Gentiles , 3 (1259-65) 13. On the Divine Simplicity. Disputed Question of the Power of God , 7 (1265-6) 14. On Goodness and the Goodness of God. Summa theologiae , 1, 5-6 (1268) 15. On Creation. Summa theologiae , 1, 44 (1268) 16. On Angelic Knowledge. Summa theologiae , 1, 54-8 (1268) 17. Definitions of Soul. On Aristotle's De anima , 2, 1-3 (1268) 18. Platonism and Neoplatonism. Preface to Exposition of On the Divine Names (1265-8) Part Four: Paris (1269-72) 19. The Range of Natural Philosophy. Expositions of Physics , 1, 1, Preface to On the Heavens , Preface to On Sense and the Sensed Object (1269) 20. How Words Mean. Exposition of On Interpretation , 1-5 (1270-71) 21. On the Ultimate End. Summa theologiae , 1-2, 1-5 (1271) 22. On Human Choice. Disputed Question on Evil , 6 (1266-72) 23. What Makes Actions Good or Bad? Summa theologiae , 1-2, 18-20 (1271) 24. On Law and Natural Law. Summa theologiae , 1-2, 90-94 (1271) 25. The Virtues. Summa theologiae , 1-2, 55-7 (1271-2) 26. The Active and Contemplative Lives. Summa theologiae , 2-2, 179-81 (1271-2) 27. On the Eternity of the World (1271) 28. The Love of Wisdom. Exposition of Metaphysics , Preface and 1, 1-3 (1271) Part Five: Naples (1272-4) 29. The Logic of the Incarnation. Summa theologiae , 3, 16 (1273) 30. What is a Sacrament? Summa theologiae , 3, 6 (1273) 31. The Exposition of the Book of Causes , 1-5 (1272) 32. Exposition of Paul's Epistle to Philemon (1273) 33. Exposition of the Angelic Salutation (Ave Maria) (1273) Glossary