Major Works

• Summa Contra Gentiles

  - Summa Contra Gentiles (c. 1264) trans and ed. Anton C. Pegis

• Summa Theologica

  - Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 1265 - 1274.
  The Summa Theologica is Thomas Aquinas’s magnum opus and one of the most influential works in Western philosophy and Christian theology. Written as a comprehensive guide for theology students, it systematically presents Aquinas’s understanding of God,… More

Other Works

• On the Principles of Nature

  - On the Principles of Nature

• On Being and Essence

  - On Being and Essence

• Disputed Questions on the Soul

  - Disputed Questions on the Soul

• On the Unity of the Intellect against the Averroists

  - On the Unity of the Intellect against the Averroists

• Treatise on Law

  - Thomas Aquinas. Treatise on Law. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000.

Commentary

• St. Thomas Aquinas

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

• Thomism and Aristotelianism by Harry Jaffa

  - Harry V. Jaffa. Thomism and Aristotelianism: A Study of the Commentary by Thomas Aquinas on the Nicomachean Ethics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1952.

• The Christian Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas

  - Etienne Gilson. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. London: V. Gollancz, 1957.

• The Political Thought of Thomas Aquinas

  - Thomas Gilby. The Political Thought of Thomas Aquinas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

• Principality and Polity: Aquinas and the Rise of State Theory in the West

  - Thomas Gilby. Principality and Polity: Aquinas and the Rise of State Theory in the West. London: Longmans, Green, 1958.

• The System of Thomas Aquinas

  - Maurice de Wulf. The System of Thomas Aquinas. New York: Dover, 1959.

• The Medieval Contribution to Political Thought

  - A. P. d'Entrèves. The Medieval Contribution to Political Thought: Thomas Aquinas, Marsilius of Padua, Richard Hooker. New York: Humanities Press, 1959.

• Guide to Thomas Aquinas

  - Josef Pieper. Guide to Thomas Aquinas. New York: Pantheon Books, 1962.

• Toward Understanding Saint Thomas by Marie-Dominique Chenu

  - Marie-Dominique Chenu. Toward Understanding Saint Thomas. Translated by A. M. Landry and D. Hughes. Chicago: Regnery, 1964.
  Marie-Dominique Chenu’s Toward Understanding Saint Thomas provides a dynamic approach to the thought of Thomas Aquinas, emphasizing the historical, cultural, and theological context that shaped his work. Chenu presents Aquinas not as a static scholastic… More

• 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

• Aquinas and Natural Law

  - D. J. O'Connor. Aquinas and Natural Law. London: Macmillan, 1967.

• “Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and the Problem of the Natural Law”

  - Ernest Fortin. "Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and the Problem of Natural Law." Mediaevalia 4 (1978): 179-208.

• Aquinas

  - Anthony Kenny. Aquinas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

• “Thomistic Natural Right”

  - E. A. Goerner. "Thomistic Natural Right." Political Theory 11, no. 3 (1983): 393-418.

• “St. Thomas Aquinas”

  - Ernest Fortin. "St. Thomas Aquinas." In History of Political Philosophy, 248-75. Edited by Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

• The Thought of Thomas Aquinas

  - Brian Davies. The Thought of Thomas Aquinas. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

• Rezeption und Interpretation der aristotelischen Politica im späten Mittelalter

  - Christoph Flüeler. Rezeption und Interpretation der aristotelischen Politica im späten Mittelalter. 2 vols. Amsterdam: B. R. Grüner, 1992.

• Aquinas on Human Action: A Theory of Practice.

  - Ralph McInerny. Aquinas on Human Action: A Theory of Practice. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1992.

• “On Leo Strauss’s Understanding of the Natural Law Theory of Thomas Aquinas”

  - Douglas Kries. "On Leo Strauss's Understanding of the Natural Law Theory of Thomas Aquinas." Thomist 57, no. 2 (1993): 215-32.

• 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.

• Ethica Thomistica: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

  - Ralph McInerny. Ethica Thomistica: The Moral Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1997.

• Medieval Aristotelianism and Its Limits

  - Cary J. Nederman. Medieval Aristotelianism and Its Limits: Classical Traditions in Moral and Political Philosophy. Aldershot, England: Variorum, 1997.

• Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory by John Finnis

  - John Finnis. Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  From the publisher: “This launch volume in the Founders of Modern Political and Social Thought series presents a critical examination of Aquinas’s thought, combining an accessible, historically-informed account of his work with an assessment of… More

• “Marriage, Slavery, and Natural Rights in the Political Thought of Aquinas”

  - P. J. Cornish. "Marriage, Slavery, and Natural Rights in the Political Thought of Aquinas." The Review of Politics 60, no. 3 (1998): 545-62.
  Recent scholarship has demonstrated that the language of subjective natural rights can be found in a wide variety of medieval juristic and scholastic texts. This is part of a general trend in the study of political ideas that stresses the continuity between… More

• Aquinas on Being

  - Anthony Kenny. Aquinas on Being. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000.
  Anthony Kenny offers a critical examination of a central metaphysical doctrine of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of the medieval philosophers. Aquinas’s account of being is famous and influential: but Kenny argues that it in fact suffers from systematic… More

• The Philosophy of Aquinas

  - Robert Pasnau and Christopher Shields. The Philosophy of Aquinas. Boulder: Westview, 2004.

• “The Fullness of Being” by Michael Zuckert

  - Michael Zuckert. "The Fullness of Being: Thomas Aquinas and the Modern Critique of Natural Law." The Review of Politics 69, no. 1 (2007): 28-47.
  Abstract: Interest in natural law theory regularly revives but the question of whether Aquinas’ classic version is viable depends on whether his doctrine has the resources to respond to the classic early modern critiques that were made of it. It is… More

• The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old

  - W. Norris Clarke. The Creative Retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas: Essays in Thomistic Philosophy, New and Old. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009.
  W. Norris Clarke has chosen the fifteen essays in this collection, five of which appear here for the first time, as the most significant of the more than seventy he has written over the course of a long career. Clarke is known for his development of a… More