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This page intentionally left blank CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT AQUINAS: POLITICAL WRITINGS CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT Serieseditors R G, ReaderinPhilosophy,UniversityofCambridge Q S, RegiusProfessorofModernHistoryinthe UniversityofCambridge CambridgeTextsintheHistoryofPoliticalThoughtisnowfirmlyes- tablishedasthemajorstudenttextbookseriesinpoliticaltheory.Itaims tomakeavailabletostudentsallthemostimportanttextsinthehistory ofwesternpoliticalthought,fromancientGreecetotheearlytwentieth century.Allthefamiliarclassictextswillbeincluded,buttheseriesseeks atthesametimetoenlargetheconventionalcanonbyincorporatingan extensive range of less well-known works, many of them never before availableinamodernEnglishedition.Whereverpossible,textsarepub- lished in complete and unabridged form, and translations are specially commissionedfortheseries.Eachvolumecontainsacriticalintroduction togetherwithchronologies,biographicalsketches,aguidetofurtherread- ingandanynecessaryglossariesandtextualapparatus.Whencompleted theserieswillaimtoofferanoutlineoftheentireevolutionofwestern politicalthought. Foralistoftitlespublishedintheseries,pleaseseeendofbook. ST THOMAS AQUINAS POLITICAL WRITINGS     R.W. DYSON           The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom    The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©in the selection, translation and editorial matter, Cambridge University Press 2004 First published in printed format 2002 ISBN 0-511-02082-1 eBook(netLibrary) ISBN 0-521-37569-X hardback ISBN 0-521-37595-9 paperback   Neglorierisdediecrastino,quianescis quidpariturussitdies Contents Preface pagexv Abbreviations xvi Introduction xvii AbriefchronologyofStThomas’slife xxxvii Bibliography xxxviii  Governmentandpolitics  (a) Summa theologiae Ia : Concerning the dominion whichbelongedtomaninthestateofinnocence  articulus:Whethermenwereequalinthestateof innocence  articulus:Whetherinthestateofinnocenceman wouldhavehaddominionoverman  (b) Thetreatise‘Deregimineprincipum’or‘Deregno’  Preface  Book  Book  (c) SummatheologiaeIaIIae::Concerningthereason forthejudicialprecepts[oftheOldTestament]  articulus : Whether the old law enjoined suitable preceptsconcerningrulers   Obedience  (a) SummatheologiaeIIaIIae:Onobedience  articulus:Whetheronemanisboundtoobey another  vii Contents articulus:Whetherobedienceisaspecificvirtue  articulus:Whetherobedienceisthegreatestofthe virtues  articulus:WhetherGodistobeobeyedinallthings  articulus:Whethersubjectsareboundtoobeytheir superiorsinallthings  articulus:WhetherChristiansareboundtoobey thesecularpowers  (b) Scriptasuperlibrossententiarum,Dist.,quaest.  articulus:WhetherChristiansareboundtoobey thesecularpowers,andtyrantsinparticular   Law  (a) SummatheologiaeIaIIae:Theessenceoflaw  articulus:Whetherlawissomethingbelongingto reason  articulus:Whetherlawisalwaysdirectedtothe commongood  articulus:Whetherthereasonofanyone whatsoevercanmakelaws  articulus:Whetherpromulgationisessentialtolaw  (b) SummatheologiaeIaIIae:Thevariouskindsoflaw  articulus:Whetherthereisaneternallaw  articulus:Whetherthereisanaturallawinus  articulus:Whetherthereisahumanlaw  articulus:Whetheritwasnecessaryfortheretobe aDivinelaw  articulus:WhetherthereisonlyoneDivinelaw  articulus:Whetherthereisa‘lawoflust’[lexfomitis]  (c) SummatheologiaeIaIIae:Theeffectsoflaw  articulus : Whether it is an effect of law to make mengood  articulus:Whetherthefunctionsoflaware properlydescribed[ascommanding,prohibiting, permittingandpunishing]  (d) SummatheologiaeIaIIae:Theeternallaw  articulus:Whethertheeternallawissupreme reasonexistinginGod  articulus:Whethertheeternallawisknowntoall men  viii

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"St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is a massively influential figure in the history of western thought and of the Catholic Church. In this major addition to the Cambridge Texts series R.W. Dyson (whose modern rendition of Augustine's City of God has already been widely acclaimed) has chosen texts by Aq
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