On Evil

by Thomas Aquinas, Richard Regan, Brian Davies (Editor)

Overview

The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. In it he examines the full range of questions associated with evil: its origin, its nature, its relation to good, and its compatibility with the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God. This edition offers Richard Regan's new, clear readable English translation, based on the Leonine Commission's authoritative edition of the Latin text. Brian Davies has provided an extensive introduction and notes. (Please note: this edition does not include the Latin text).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195091830
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/20/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.08(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

The late John A. Oesterle was the author of Logic: The Art of Defining and Reasoning and the translator of Treatise on Happiness (Notre Dame Press, 1983) and Treatise on the Virtues (Notre Dame Press, 1984).

Jean T. Oesterle is the translator of St. Thomas's and Cajetan's Commentary on Aristotle's Perihermeneias (On the Enunciation).

Editorial Reviews

This is a major milestone in translation and a welcome addition to the opus of the great saint available in translation. Highly recommended.” —The Reader’s Review

“Those who have the required time and tenacity will be richly rewarded by [Aquinas’s] treatment of a perennial problem.” —Books and Culture

“Great care has been lavished on the text, and the result is a clear and readable rendering. . . . a valuable addition to the growing list of Thomas’s works available in English.” —Religious Studies Review

". . . a mature and major work [that] deals with both philosophical and theological aspects of the nature of evil, its causes and kinds, the main classes of sin, freedom, original sin, and devils. . . ." —Choice

“Plumbing the theological problem of evil—a classic intellectual and emotional struggle in religion—now seems a newly urgent task, a fact reflected in... a new translation of Aquinas’s On Evil by John and Jean Oesterle (Notre Dame).” —Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

". . . A mature and major work [that] deals with both philosophical and theological aspects of the nature of evil, its causes and kinds, the main classes of sin, freedom, original sin, and devils. . . ." —Choice

Choice

“Great care has been lavished on the text, and the result is a clear and readable rendering. . . . A valuable addition to the growing list of Thomas’s works available in English.” — Religious Studies Review

Religious Studies Review