Aquinas: Basic Works: Basic Works

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Drawn from a wide range of writings and featuring state-of-the-art translations, Basic Works offersconvenient access to Thomas Aquinas' most important discussions of nature, being and essence,divine and human nature, and ethics and human action.The translations all capture Aquinas's sharp, transparent style and display terminologicalconsistency. Many were originally published in the acclaimed translation-cum-commentary series

The Hackett Aquinas, edited by Robert Pasnau and Jeffrey Hause. Others appear here for the firsttime: Eleonore Stump and Stephen Chanderbahn's translation of On the Principles of Nature,Peter King's translation of On Being and Essence, and Thomas Williams' translations of thetreatises On Happiness and On Human Acts from the Summa theologiae.Basic Works will enable students to immerse themselves in Aquinas's thought by offering hisfundamental works without internal abridgements. It will also appeal to anyone in search of anup-to-date, one-volume collection containing Aquinas' essential philosophical contributionsfrom the Five Ways to the immortality of the soul, and from the nature of happiness to virtuetheory, and on to natural law.

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Jeffrey Hause is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Creighton University. Robert Pasnau is Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado, Boulder.