Middle AgesThomas Aquinas

Aquinas: Happiness, Virtue and Law

What happiness is, how habits become virtues, and the kinds of law, from eternal law to human law.

✎ Being written
Volume
17 and 18 of the 1990 set
Author
Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)
Work
Summa Theologica, First Part of the Second Part 1265–1274

Ideas: Happiness and the good life Virtue and character Laws and lawgivers

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