Major Works

• Commentary on Aristotle’s Politics

  - Commentary on Aristotle's Politics 

Commentary

• St. Thomas Aquinas

  - G. K. Chesterton. St. Thomas Aquinas. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933.

• Aquinas by Frederick Copleston

  - Frederick C. Copleston. Aquinas. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1965.
  Frederick Copleston’s Aquinas offers a concise yet profound exploration of the life, thought, and enduring influence of Thomas Aquinas, one of the most significant figures in Western philosophy and Christian theology. Written with clarity and depth,… More

• The Ethics of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Two Courses

  - I. T. Eschmann. The Ethics of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Two Courses. Edited by Edward A. Synan. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1997.

• “Thomas Aquinas on Virtuous Warfare”

  - D. Cole. "Thomas Aquinas on Virtuous Warfare." The Journal of Religious Ethics 27, no. 1 (1999): 57-80.
  Thomas Aquinas, one of the “founding fathers” of just war theory, offers an account of virtuous warfare in practice. The author argues that Aquinas’s approach to warfare, with its emphasis on justice and charity, is helpful in providing a… More

• The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought

  - M. S. Kempshall. The Common Good in Late Medieval Political Thought: Moral Goodness and Material Benefit. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.

• Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory

  - John Hittinger. Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace: Thomism and Democratic Political Theory. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2002.
  Twentieth-century French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon pioneered new approaches to understanding and defending political democracy in the wake of two world wars. Rather than break from a religious tradition that seemed to struggle against… More

• Aquinas, Aristotle and the Promise of the Common Good

  - Mary M. Keys. Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  Aquinas, Aristotle, and the Promise of the Common Good claims that contemporary theory and practice have much to gain from engaging Aquinas’s normative concept of the common good and his way of reconciling religion, philosophy, and politics. Examining… More

• Aquinas on Friendship

  - D. Schwartz. Aquinas on Friendship. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007.
  Daniel Schwartz examines the views on friendship of the great medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. For Aquinas friendship is the ideal type of relationship that rational beings should cultivate. Schwartz argues that Aquinas fundamentally revises some of the… More