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One of the more enduring and influential contributions of Aquinas to Western Philosophy are his writings on ethics and politics. His Natural Law Theory, for example, is the fruit of a reflection upon the essential relationship between Ethics and Politics, informed as this was by Greek and Roman thinking. Again, his teaching with regard to toleration and human rights was taken up by thinkers of the 16th Catholic Enlightenment and would become the basis of the eighteenth century Enlightenment thinking on the Rights of Man. Finally, the contemporary return to virtue ethics advocated by such thinkers as Anscombe and McIntyre mean that Aquinas’s philosophy remains very much of topical interest. This module examines central tenets and insights of Aquinas on the relationship between politics and ethics.
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AQUINAS ON POLITICS AND ETHICS
