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A Reader posted a review at 2008-08-04 09:06:06.
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This is probably one of the most cherished books I will ever own!
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-01-14 03:15:45.
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The words of Aquinas are timeless. His insight into law, order, the state, and a civil society and culture are both powerful and relevant. I cannot encourage this book enough.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-06-04 12:26:44.
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Feh. It took a while to read, but I did it. A critical writer for not only theologians, but dare I say philosophers who want to learn how Aristotle was first recovered by the Medieval West. Hegelians? Marxists? Take note. Aquinas is the first major interpreter of Aristotle right before Modernity takes hold. Aquinas can be long and boring, though much of his stuff is interesting. He's got a real fetish for angels, though. It's a bit weird.
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Juan posted a review at 2008-09-19 06:15:11.
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muy ilustrativo
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-09-19 03:51:59.
(Language: English)
It is said St. Thomas is an acquired taste, but I answer that _if_ he is an acquired taste, he is in the same way good red wine is, _id est_, one ought to intentionally acquire this taste by a certain age. Sigmund writes rightly that we abandon St. Thomas in politics and ethics at our peril.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-09-18 10:13:41.
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Okay, I haven't actually read this collection. I have read lots of Aquinas but I just love the picture on this one. Look at him. Hilarious. He looks like he just pulled his own finger and now he's farting.
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A Reader posted a review at 2008-09-22 05:53:27.
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Fr. Steven Maekawa hand this book to me when he departed the seminary, I in turn handed it on to a younger friar. It is a good quick overview of key selections.
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-08-23 07:20:08.
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I borrowed this text to study De Regno as a medieval representation of authority, and compare it to the renaissance text, Machiavelli's The prince. It was very useful for gaining insight into the culture and class structure of the time, especially regarding the authority of rulers and the church
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A Reader posted a review at 2007-12-31 10:57:47.
(Language: English)
If you are going to read about the origins of Christian thought, start with this.
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A Reader posted a review at 2009-05-08 03:49:47.
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While Aquinas is extremely important and a great synthesizer of Western Christian thought, his writing style has a dryness that few thinkers can attain. And he has this weird obsession with angels that is just insufferable. That said, I learned a lot and I like how he explains Aristotle and pwns Anselm's ontological proof. This book is more Aquinas than you'll ever need, but it's good to have on hand when you need to know bits of the Summa, his cosmological proof, need cheat sheets of Aristotle, and want to learn about classic formulations of virtue theory. Still, once you're done, you'd feel like you'd kill for a reformation or something... Aquinas, you dumb ox!
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