Thomas Aquinas: Ethics and Morality
• Address the foundational ideas for Aquinas’ understanding above in less detail than if you were focusing on that question.
• What are some of the ways that Christian virtue ethicists differ from Aristotle’s virtue ethics?
• Highlight the question of how Aquinas thinks faith compliments reason.
• Describe the four kinds of law that Aquinas discusses.
• Briefly describe natural law.
• Briefly describe the view that existing law should align with the natural law.
• What are some ways that theology is thought to compliment philosophy?
• What results does this focus on theology have for politics in the Medieval understanding of Thomistic ethics?
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source only from “Doing Ethics 5th edition” Lewis Vaughn
