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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Aquinas And The Nicomachean Ethics by Edited by Tobias Hoffmann , Edited by Joern Muller , Edited by Matthias Perkams
Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics is the text which had the single greatest influence on Aquinass ethical writings, and the historical and philosophical value of Aquinass appropriation of this text provokes lively debate. In this volume of new essays, thirteen distinguished scholars explore how Aquinas receives, expands on and transforms Aristotles insights about the attainability of happiness, the scope of moral virtue, the foundation of morality and the nature of pleasure. They examine Aquinass commentary on the Ethics and his theological writings, above all the Summa theologiae. Their essays show Aquinas to be a highly perceptive interpreter, but one who also brings certain presuppositions to the Ethics and alters key Aristotelian notions for his own purposes. The result is a rich and nuanced picture of Aquinass relation to Aristotle that will be of interest to readers in moral philosophy, Aquinas studies, the history of theology and the history of philosophy.show more