A Companion To The Summa: Volume II - The Pursuit of Happiness (Corresponding to the Summa Theologica IA IIAE.)

Type
Book
Authors
Farrell ( Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.D., S.T.M. )
 
Category
Catholic Theology  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1939 
Publisher
Sheed & Ward, United States 
Volume
Pages
467 
Description
This is the second volume of four volumes designed to throw open the thought of St. Thomas to readers who are not by way of being professional philosophers. Their unique characteristics will be a combination of professional completeness and non-professional language - a complete exposition of the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas, no question being omitted, yet a dramatic presentation.
The broad principles of St. Thomas are put in commonplace modern situations, in such a way as to bring out the wide sweep and radical implications of these principles for human living.
This volume is a book of general ethics: not a text-book, but rather an exposition of the broad bases of Christian ethical thought, dramatic, utterly simple yet of vast profundity. It exposes the entire First Part of the Second Section of the Summa Theologica: questions of the goal of human life, the last end of man; the means to that goal, human actions in themselves, their moral implications; the principles of human actions, passions, habits both good and bad, law and grace, the principle of supernatural life. The book closes with an analysis of modern thought which serves as a vivid contract to Thomistic ethical thought.
Each chapter in the book is preceded by an outline which gives an analysis both of the contents of the chapter and of the thought of St. Thomas expressed in the parallel questions of the Summa. Each chapter of the book forms a distinct unit. Its particular advantage lies in its character of guide-book to the Summa Theologica. It explains, step by step, the thought of St. Thomas as expressed in his supreme work; but it also fills in what must inevitably appear to the novice as gaps in the Summa by its free use of the parallel passages in other parts of the Summa and in the other works of St. Thomas.
 
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