A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas - Nature and the Natural Law

In A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas , Charles P. Nemeth investigates how, despite their differences, these two figures may be the most compatible brothers in ideas ever conceived in the theory of natural law. Looking to find common threads that run between the philosophies of these two great thinkers of the Classical and Medieval periods, this book aims to determine whether or not there exists a common ground whereby ethical debates and dilemmas can be evaluated. Does comparison between Cicero and Aquinas offer a new pathway for moral measure, based on defined and developed principles? Do they deliver certain moral and ethical principles for human life to which each agree? Instead of a polemical diatribe, comparison between Cicero and Aquinas may edify a method of compromise and afford a more or less restrictive series of judgements about ethical quandaries.>

List of contents

1. Background and Context: Cicero and Aquinas
i. Introduction
ii. The Comparative Setting
iii. Biographical Sketch of Cicero
iv. Biographical Sketch of St. Thomas Aquinas
2. Nature and the Natural Order in Cicero and Aquinas
i. Introduction
ii. Nature as Truth, Science and the Natural Order
iii. Comparative Conclusion: Cicero and Aquinas: Nature and Natural Order
3. Cicero and Aquinas: Nature and Reason
i. Nature and Reason
ii. Cicero on Reason
iii. Aquinas on Reason
iv. The Compatibility of Cicero and Aquinas: Nature, Reason and Virtue
4. Cicero and Aquinas on the Natural Law
i. Introduction
ii. Cicero on the Natural Law
iii. Aquinas on the Natural Law
iv. Compatibility on the Natural Law: Cicero and Aquinas
5. Cicero and Aquinas: Compatibility and Contrast
i. General Observations on Cicero and Aquinas: Nature, the Natural Order, Reason and the Natural Law
ii. Whether Cicero and Aquinas Agree on the Role of Nature and the Natural Order
iii. Whether Cicero and Aquinas see Nature and Reason as Essential to their Natural Law Philosophy
iv. Whether the Natural Law of Cicero and Aquinas are Compatible
v. Conclusion: Implications for Natural Law Reasoning
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Charles P. Nemeth is Professor and Chair: John Jay College of the City University of New York, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Charles P Nemeth, Charles P. Nemeth, Charles P. (City University of New York Nemeth
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.05.2017
• EAN: 9781350009462
• ISBN: 978-1-350-00946-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy; Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient; Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy; Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy