Santo Tomás de Aquino é mais conhecido por suas duas grandes obras: a Suma Teológica e a Suma Contra os Gentios. Embora tais escritos sejam complexos, tratando de inúmeros temas, o Doutor Angélico não deixou de seguir uma tendência comum entre os medievais i.e, a análise e comentário de uma das obras formadoras do ideário filosófico ocidental: a Ética a Nicômaco de Aristóteles.
Esta obra traz a tradução do Comentário de Santo Tomás ao livro V da Ética de Aristóteles cuja temática se concentra no estudo da Justiça e do Direito e que serve de elo entre a Política do Estagirita - a boa administração da Cidade - e a Ética particular, tomada no sentido individual, estabelecendo regras para o bem viver à moda estóico-cristã.
Thomas Aquinas was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.
The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.
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