Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature: A Philosophical Study of Summa theologiae 1a, 75-89
Robert Pasnau
Cambridge University Press, 2002 -
500 pages
This
is a major new study of Thomas Aquinas, the most influential
philosopher of the Middle Ages. The book offers a clear and accessible
guide to the central project of Aquinas' philosophy: the understanding
of human nature. Robert Pasnau sets the philosophy in the context of
ancient and modern thought, and argues for some groundbreaking proposals
for understanding some of the most difficult areas of Aquinas' thought:
the relationship of soul to body, the workings of sense and intellect,
the will and the passions, and personal identity. Structured around a
close reading of the treatise on human nature from the Summa theologiae
and deeply informed by a wide knowledge of the history of philosophy and
contemporary philosophy, this study will offer specialists a series of
novel and provocative interpretations, while providing students with a
reference commentary on one of Aquinas' core texts.
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