Thomas Aquinas's Quodlibetal Questions

<p>Thomas Aquinas was one of the most significant Christian thinkers of the middle ages and ranks among the greatest philosophers and theologians of all time. In the mid-thirteenth century as a teacher at the University of Paris Aquinas presided over public university-wide debates on questions that could be put forward by anyone about anything. The <em>Quodlibetal Questions </em>are Aquinas's edited records of these debates. Unlike his other disputed questions which are limited to a few specific topics such as evil or divine power Aquinas's <em>Quodlibetal Questions</em> contain his treatment of hundreds of questions on a wide range of topics--from ethics metaphysics philosophy of mind and philosophy of religion to dogmatic theology sacramental theology moral theology eschatology and much more. And unlike his other disputed questions none of the questions treated in his<em> Quodlibetal</em> <em>Questions</em> were of Aquinas's own choosing--they were all posed for him to answer by those who attended the public debates. As such this volume provides a window onto the concerns of students teachers and other interested parties in and around the university at that time. For the same reason it contains some of Aquinas's fullest and in certain cases his only treatments of philosophical and theological questions that have maintained their interest throughout the centuries.</p>