Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions
Summa Theologiae 1a2ae 22-48
Cambridge University Press
Published on 31. October 2024
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-1-009-45034-8 (ISBN)
Description
Thomas Aquinas's Questions on the passions form part of the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas's best-known work. This first standalone edition shows, through a translation that is both rigorously accurate and mirrors the rapid tempo of Aquinas's Latin, what Aquinas says in his landmark treatment of the passions. Aquinas sets the parameters and terms of debate for numerous later theorists of the passions, including Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza and Hume. Some have alleged that Paul and later Christians have (in Nietzsche's words) "an evil eye for the passions," judging them as 'dirty, disfiguring and heartbreaking'. Yet readers of the present translation will perceive that Aquinas regards the passions as part of created nature, and thereby good in their essence. As they encounter Aquinas's treatment, they will also deepen their knowledge of particular passions-including love, hatred, desire, aversion, pleasure, sorrow, hope, despair, fear, and anger.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-009-45034-8 (9781009450348)
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Robert Miner is Professor of Philosophy at Providence College. He is the author of Nietzsche's Gay Science (2022) and Thomas Aquinas on the Passions (2009), and translator of Thomas Aquinas: Questions on Love and Charity (2017).
Content
1. Introduction; 2. Thomas Aquinas: questions on the passions; 3. Summa Theologiae 1a2ae 22-48; 4. Question 22: the subject of the passions; 5. Question 23: difference of the passions from one another; 6. Question 24: good and evil regarding the passions; 7. Question 25: ordering of the passions to one another; 8. Question 26: love itself; 9. Question 27: the cause of love; 10. Question 28: effects of love; 11. Question 29: hatred; 12. Question 30: desire; 13. Question 31: pleasure In itself; 14. Question 32: causes of pleasure; 15. Question 33: effects of pleasure; 16. Question 34: goodness and evilness of pleasures; 17. Question 35: sorrow and pain; 18. Question 36: causes of sorrow or pain; 19. Question 37: effects of pain or sorrow; 20. Question 38: remedies for pain or sorrow; 21. Question 39: goodness and evilness of pain or sorrow; 22. Question 40: hope and despair; 23. Question 41: fear itself; 24. Question 42: the object of fear; 25. Question 43: the cause of fear; 26. Question 44: effects of fear; 27. Question 45: Ddring; 28. Question 46: anger In itself; 29. Question 47: the Cause that produces anger, and its remedies; 30. Question 48: effects of anger; Works cited; Index locorum; General index.