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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