Treatise On Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to be human? In Treatise On Man, the thirteenth-century Dominican friar and towering intellectual giant Thomas Aquinas presents a rigorous and systematic examination of human nature, drawing from Aristotelian philosophy and Christian theology to construct one of the most enduring accounts of the soul, the intellect, and the body ever committed to writing. Originally forming Questions 75–102 of the monumental Summa Theologiae, this work argues that the human being is a unified composite of matter and form — a rational soul incarnate — and meticulously details the powers of the soul, the nature of sensation, the workings of the intellect, and the original condition of man before the Fall. Translated with scholarly precision by James F. Anderson, this edition makes Aquinas's dense scholastic Latin accessible to modern readers without sacrificing the philosophical rigour that has made it a cornerstone of Western intellectual tradition. Aquinas's method — posing questions, raising objections, and resolving them with crystalline logic — remains a masterclass in structured reasoning, as vital to students of philosophy and theology today as it was in medieval Paris. Whether one approaches it as a work of metaphysics, anthropology, or sacred doctrine, Treatise On Man raises questions about consciousness, free will, and human dignity that remain strikingly, even urgently, unanswered.
Author: St. Thomas Aquinas
Format: Paperback
Published: 1963, Prentice hall
Genre: Philosophy
Edition: 2nd pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to be human? In Treatise On Man, the thirteenth-century Dominican friar and towering intellectual giant Thomas Aquinas presents a rigorous and systematic examination of human nature, drawing from Aristotelian philosophy and Christian theology to construct one of the most enduring accounts of the soul, the intellect, and the body ever committed to writing. Originally forming Questions 75–102 of the monumental Summa Theologiae, this work argues that the human being is a unified composite of matter and form — a rational soul incarnate — and meticulously details the powers of the soul, the nature of sensation, the workings of the intellect, and the original condition of man before the Fall. Translated with scholarly precision by James F. Anderson, this edition makes Aquinas's dense scholastic Latin accessible to modern readers without sacrificing the philosophical rigour that has made it a cornerstone of Western intellectual tradition. Aquinas's method — posing questions, raising objections, and resolving them with crystalline logic — remains a masterclass in structured reasoning, as vital to students of philosophy and theology today as it was in medieval Paris. Whether one approaches it as a work of metaphysics, anthropology, or sacred doctrine, Treatise On Man raises questions about consciousness, free will, and human dignity that remain strikingly, even urgently, unanswered.