Abstract

Like its predecessors in this new sixty volume edition of the Summa, this book has been meticulously prepared. A working text has been taken from the Parma text with corrections added from the Leonine version, and Gilby provides his usual sound but readable translation. The specific questions treated are "Moral Good and Evil in Human Acts in General," "Moral Good and Evil in the Will's Inner Activity," "Moral Good and Evil in Outward Acts," and "Corollaries to Moral Good and Evil in Human Acts." Gilby's appendices give a compendious treatment to St. Thomas' entire moral philosophy, locating it systematically within the successively broadening contexts of moral theology and sacra doctrina generally and substantively in the dual contexts of St. Thomas' biologically based anthropology and metaphysically founded natural theology—E. A. R.