Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Ethics: Merely an Interpretation of Aristotle?

Authors

Christopher Kaczor, Loyola Marymount UniversityFollow

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Article

Publication Date

2004

Abstract

In recent years, some controversy has arisen about whether Thomas Aquinas’s commentaries on Aristotle can be read as expressing Aquinas’s own views rather than as simply an interpretation of Aristotle. This article examines the reasons given in favor of the view that the commentaries, in particular the commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics, are merely interpretations of Aristotle. Using Thomas’s scripture commentaries, internal evidence, as well as the history of reception, it is concluded that the Sententia libri ethicorum presents Thomas’s own views and not merely his understanding of Aristotle.

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Kaczor, Christopher. “Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Ethics: Merely an Interpretation of Aristotle?” American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78, no. 3 (2004): 353–78. https://doi.org/10.5840/acpq200478326.