The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. In it he examines the full range of questions associated with evil: its origin, its nature, its relation to good, and its compatibility with the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God.
Contents:
On evil
On sins
On the cause of sin
On original sin
On the punishment of original sin
On human choice
On venial sin
On the capital vices
On vainglory
On envy
On acedia
On anger
On avarice
On gluttony
On lust
On the demons
The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. In it he examines the full range of questions associated with evil: its origin, its nature, its relation to good, and its compatibility with the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God.
Contents:
On evil
On sins
On the cause of sin
On original sin
On the punishment of original sin
On human choice
On venial sin
On the capital vices
On vainglory
On envy
On acedia
On anger
On avarice
On gluttony
On lust
On the demons
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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