Thomas Aquinas Study Circle

THOMAS AQUINAS' WORKS

 

Summa Theologiae: read it online here

Walter Farrell's A Companion to the Summa

 

 

Aquinas on Scripture

Degrees Faith Hope Love Virtues

 

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The Question of the Month

How can we know what a "just price" is?

"Divine law leaves nothing unpunished that is contrary to virtue. Hence, according to the Divine law, it is reckoned unlawful if the equality of justice be not observed in buying and selling: and he who has received more than he ought must make compensation to him that has suffered loss, if the loss be considerable. I add this condition, because the just price of things is not fixed with mathematical precision, but depends on a kind of estimate, so that a slight addition or subtraction would not seem to destroy the equality of justice." S.T. II-II, Q77, A1, RO1

Sed lex divina nihil impunitum relinquit quod sit virtuti contrarium. Unde secundum divinam legem illicitum reputatur si in emptione et venditione non sit aequalitas iustitiae observata. Et tenetur ille qui plus habet recompensare ei qui damnificatus est, si sit notabile damnum. Quod ideo dico quia iustum pretium rerum quandoque non est punctaliter determinatum, sed magis in quadam aestimatione consistit, ita quod modica additio vel minutio non videtur tollere aequalitatem iustitiae.

 

Jacques Maritain

Jacques Maritain's legacy in Canada

Jacques Maritain, "The End of Machiavellianism" in The Range of Reason

Jacques Maritain on St. Thomas Aquinas

Jacques Maritain on personalism

"The Political Commentary of Christopher Dawson and Jacques Maritain, 1927-1939"

"Nature and Grace: The Theological Foundations of Jacques Maritain's Public Philosophy"