Thomas Aquinas: Questions on the Passions
Summa Theologiae 1a2ae 22-48

The first standalone edition of Aquinas's ground-breaking treatment of the passions (Summa 1-2.22-48): indispensable for students, teachers and scholars.

Robert Miner (Edited and translated by)

9781009450348, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 31 October 2024

312 pages
23.5 x 16 x 2.2 cm, 0.6 kg

Thomas Aquinas's Questions on the passions form part of the Summa Theologiae, Aquinas's best-known work. This first standalone edition shows, through a translation that is both rigorously accurate and mirrors the rapid tempo of Aquinas's Latin, what Aquinas says in his landmark treatment of the passions. Aquinas sets the parameters and terms of debate for numerous later theorists of the passions, including Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza and Hume. Some have alleged that Paul and later Christians have (in Nietzsche's words) “an evil eye for the passions,” judging them as 'dirty, disfiguring and heartbreaking'. Yet readers of the present translation will perceive that Aquinas regards the passions as part of created nature, and thereby good in their essence. As they encounter Aquinas's treatment, they will also deepen their knowledge of particular passions-including love, hatred, desire, aversion, pleasure, sorrow, hope, despair, fear, and anger.

1. Introduction
2. Thomas Aquinas: questions on the passions
3. Summa Theologiae 1a2ae 22-48
4. Question 22: the subject of the passions
5. Question 23: difference of the passions from one another
6. Question 24: good and evil regarding the passions
7. Question 25: ordering of the passions to one another
8. Question 26: love itself
9. Question 27: the cause of love
10. Question 28: effects of love
11. Question 29: hatred
12. Question 30: desire
13. Question 31: pleasure In itself
14. Question 32: causes of pleasure
15. Question 33: effects of pleasure
16. Question 34: goodness and evilness of pleasures
17. Question 35: sorrow and pain
18. Question 36: causes of sorrow or pain
19. Question 37: effects of pain or sorrow
20. Question 38: remedies for pain or sorrow
21. Question 39: goodness and evilness of pain or sorrow
22. Question 40: hope and despair
23. Question 41: fear itself
24. Question 42: the object of fear
25. Question 43: the cause of fear
26. Question 44: effects of fear
27. Question 45: Ddring
28. Question 46: anger In itself
29. Question 47: the Cause that produces anger, and its remedies
30. Question 48: effects of anger
Works cited
Index locorum
General index.

Subject Areas: History of Western philosophy [HPC]