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T HE P HILOSOPHY OF

T HOMAS A QUINAS

COURSE GUIDE

Professor Peter Kreeft

BOSTON COLLEGE

The Philosophy of

Thomas Aquinas

Professor Peter Kreeft

Boston College

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Course Syllabus

The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas

About Your Professor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Lecture 1 Aquinas’s Importance and a Short Biography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Lecture 2 Philosophy and Theology, Reason and Faith. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Lecture 3 Can You Prove God’s Existence?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Lecture 4 The Case Against Aquinas’s God and Proofs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Lecture 5 Our Knowledge of and Language About God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Lecture 6 “What Is God?”: The Divine Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Lecture 7 Aquinas’s Cosmology: Creation, Providence, and Free Will. . . . . . . . . . 41

Lecture 8 Aquinas’s Metaphysics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Lecture 9 Aquinas’s Philosophical Anthropology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Lecture 10 Aquinas’s Epistemology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Lecture 11 Aquinas’s Ethics: What Is the Greatest Good?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Lecture 12 Aquinas’s Ethics: Right and Wrong. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Lecture 13 Aquinas on Law. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Lecture 14 Aquinas and Modern Philosophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Course Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104

About Your Professor

Peter Kreeft

PeterKreeftisaprofessorofphilosophyatBostonCollege.Hehaswrittenover

fifty books, including Fundamentals of the Faith , The Best Things in Life , Back

to Virtue ,and The Unaborted Socrates .Hereceivedhisbachelor’sdegreefrom

Calvin College and his Ph.D. from Fordham University. Before

teaching at Boston College, he taught at Villanova University

for three years. Kreeft has been at Boston University for forty-

four years.

You’ll get the most from this course if you read Summa of

the Summa edited and annotated by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius

Press, 1990).

Recorded Books also offers these other courses by Professor Kreeft.

They are available online at www.modernscholar.com or by calling

Recorded Books at 1-800-636-3399.

Ethics: The History of Moral Thought

This course addresses some of the eternal questions that man has grappled with

since the beginning of time. What is good? What is bad? Why is justice important?

Most human beings have the faculty to discern between right and wrong, good and

bad behavior, and to make judgments over what is just and what is unjust. This

course looks at our history as ethical beings by traveling into the very heart of

mankind’s greatest philosophical dilemmas and considering the ongoing process of

establishing ethical frameworks for society .

Faith and Reason: The Philosophy of Religion

Through the ages, mankind has pursued questions of faith in something beyond

the world of ordinary experience. Is there a God? How can we explain the presence

of evil? Is there a hell?

The seeming conflicts between religion and science, and the different truth-claims

of the world’s most popular religions, are examined. By delving into the major char-

acteristics of world religions, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and

Buddhism, mankind’s association with the many different varieties of religious prac-

tice is brought to light.

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