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Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law

By J. Budziszewski

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2014
ISBN
1107029392, 9781107029392
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5963625 bytes)
Pages
514\769
Scanned
yes
Time added
2014-09-27 01:36:18

Description

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' 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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