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General Works about Aquinas:

Biographies and Introductions
Collections of Essays

Thomistic Works by Subject:

Aesthetics
Epistemology (Philosophy of Knowledge)
Ethics
Metaphysics
Natural Philosophy (Philosophy of Nature)
Natural Theology (Philosophy of God)
Political Theory
Psychology (Philosophy of Mind)
Sacred Theology

Biographies and Introductions

Anscombe, G. E. M., and Geach P. Three Philosophers. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1961). Order here.

Chesterton, G. K. St. Thomas Aquinas (New York: Doubleday, 1956). Order here.

Chenu, M-D. Toward Understanding Saint Thomas. (Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1964).

Coppleston, Frederick C., Aquinas (Baltimore: Penguin Pelican, 1955). Order here.

Davies, Brian. The Thought of Thomas Aquinas. (New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1992). Order here.
Farrell, Walter, Companion to the Summa Order here.
Gallagher, David M. Thomas Aquinas and His Legacy (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1994). Order here.
Gilson, Etienne. The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas. (New York: Random House, 1956). Order here.
Jordan, Mark D. The Alleged Aristotelianism of Thomas Aquinas. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1992).
Kenny, Anthony, Aquinas. (New York: Hill and Wang, 1980). Order here.
McInerny, Ralph M. St. Thomas Aquinas. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1982). Order here.
Pieper, Josef. Guide to St. Thomas Aquinas. (NY: Pantheon, 1962). Order here.
Torrell, Jean-Pierre. Saint Thomas Aquinas. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1996). Order here.
Weisheipl, James A. Friar Thomas D'Aquino : His Life, Thought, and Works. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1983). Order here.

Collections of Essays

_____. St. Thomas Aquinas, 1274-1974; Commemorative Studies. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1974).
Gilson and Pegis, eds. Saint Thomas Aquinas and Philosophy. (West Hartford, CT: St. Joseph College, 1961).
Kenny, Anthony. Aquinas: a Collection of Critical Essays. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1976) Order here.
Kretzman and Stump, eds. Cambridge Companion to Aquinas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). Order here.

Aesthetics

Eco, Umberto. Art and Beauty in the Middle Ages (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986).
_____. Aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988). Order here.
Gilson, Etienne. Painting and Creating. (New York: Pantheon, 1957).
Kovach, Francis. Philosophy of Beauty. (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1974)
Maritain, Jacques. Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry. (New York: Scribner, 1930).
_____. Art and Scholasticism. (New York: Pantheon, 1953).
Maurer, Armand. About Beauty: A Thomistic Interpretation. (Houston, TX: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1983). Order here.

Epistemology (Philosophy of Knowledge)

Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit. Maimonides and St. Thomas on the Limits of Reason. (Albany : State University of New York Press, c1995). Order here.
Gilson, Etienne. Thomist Realism and the Critique of Knowledge. (San Francisco : Ignatius Press, 1986). Order here.
Jenkins, John I. Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas. (NY : Cambridge University Press, 1997). Order here.
Maurer, Armand A. Being and Knowing: Studies in Thomas Aquinas and Later Medieval Philosophers. (Toronto, Ont., Canada: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990). Order here.
Owens, Joseph. Cognition: An Epistemological Inquiry. (Houston, TX: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1992). Order here.
Pasnau, Robert. Theories of Cognition in the Later Middle Ages. (NY: Cambridge University Press, 1997).
Regis, Louis M. Epistemology(New York: Macmillan, 1959)
Russman, Thomas A. A Prospectus for the Triumph of Realism. (Macon: Mercer University Press, 1987).
Spangler, Mary Michael. Principles of Education: A Study of Aristotelian Thomism Contrasted with Other Philosophies. (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1983).

Ethics

Bourke, Vernon. Ethics. (New York: Macmillan, 1951).
Gilson, Etienne. Moral Values and the Moral Life. (St. Louis: Herder, 1931).
Harak, G. Simon. Virtuous Passions: The Formation of Christian Character. (NY: Paulist Press, 1993).
Keenan, James F. Goodness and Rightness in Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1992). Order here.
McInerny, Ralph M. Aquinas on Human Action: A Theory of Practice. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1992). Order here.
_____. Ethica Thomistica. Order here.
Nelson, Daniel Mark. The Priority of Prudence. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1992). Order here.
Pesch, Otto Hermann. Christian Existence According to Thomas Aquinas. (Toronto, Ont., Canada: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1989).
Pieper, Josef. The Four Cardinal Virtues. (University of Notre Dame Press, 1966). Order here.
Porter, Jean. Recovery of Virtue. (John Knox Press, 1990). Order here.
Westberg, Daniel. Right Practical Reason: Aristotle, Action, and Prudence in Aquinas. (New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994). Order here.

Metaphysics

Bobik, Joseph, Aquinas On Being and Essence. (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1965). Order here.
Conway, Pierre; Spangler, Mary Michael. Metaphysics of Aquinas: A Summary of Aquinas's Exposition of Aristotle's Metaphysics. (Lanham : University Press of America, c1996).
Deely, John N., "Finitude, Negativity, Transcendence: the Problematic of Metaphysical Knowledge," Philosophy Today, 11 (1967).
Geach, Peter. God and the Soul. (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1969).
Geiger, L. B., "Abstraction et separation d'apres s. Thomas In de Trinitate q.5 a.3," Revue des sciences philosophiques et theologiques. 31 (January 1947).
Gilson, Etienne. Being and Some Philosophers. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1952). Order here.
Goheen, John. The Problem of Matter and Form in the De Ente Essentia of Thomas Aquinas. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1940).
Johnson, Mark F., "Immateriality and the Domain of Thomistic Natural Philosophy," Modern Schoolman. 67 (1990).
Knasas, John F. X. The Preface to Thomistic Metaphysics. (New York: Peter Lang, 1990).
Lee, Patrick. "Aquinas on the Knowledge of Truth and Existence," New Scholasticism. 60 (1986).
Maritain, Jacques. Existence and the Existent (New York: Pantheon, 1948). Order here.
_____.Preface to Metaphysics (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1939)
McInerny, Ralph. Being and Predication. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 1986). Order here.
O'Brien, Thomas C. O.P. Metaphysics and the Existence of God. (Washington, D.C.: Thomist Press, 1960).
Owens, Joseph, C.Ss.R. An Elementary Christian Metaphysics. (Houston, TX: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1985).
Pannier, Russell and Sullivan, Thomas D. "Aquinas on 'Exists,'" American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. 67 (1993).
Smith, Vincent E. "Prime Mover: Physical and Metaphysical Considerations," Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. 28 (1954).
Sweeney, Leo. A Metaphysics of Authentic Existentialism (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1965).
Tavuzzi, Michael. "Aquinas on the Preliminary Grasp of Being," Thomist. 51 (1987).
Wallace, William. "Metaphysics and the Existence of God," New Scholasticism. 37 (1963).
Weisheipl, James, O.P., "Medieval Natural Philosophy and Modern Science," Nature and Motion in the Middle Ages. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1985).
Wippel, John F. Metaphysical Themes in Thomas Aquinas. (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press, 1984).

Natural Philosophy (Philosophy of Nature)

Elders, Leo. The Philosophy of Nature of Saint Thomas Aquinas. (Peter Lang, 1997). Order here.
Hetzler, Florence M. Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature. (NY: P. Lang, 1990). Order here.
Koren, Henry J. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Nature. (Pittsburgh: Duquesne Univ., 1960).
Maritain, Jacques. Philosophy of Nature. [To which is added "Maritain's philosophy of the sciences," by Yves R. Simon.] (New York: Philosophical Library, 1951).
Smith, Vincent E. The General Science of Nature. (Milwaukee: Bruce Pub. Co., 1958).

Natural Theology (Philosophy of God)

Anderson, James. Natural Theology: The Metaphysics of God. (Milwaukee: Bruce, 1962).
Blair, George. "Another Look at St. Thomas' `First Way'." Internation Philosophical Quarterly. 16 (1976).
Bonnette, Denis. Aquinas' Proofs for God's Existence. (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1972).
Burrell, David. Aquinas: God and Action. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1979). Order here.
_____. Knowing the Unknowable God: Ibn-Sina, Maimonides, Aquinas. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1986).
Burrill, Donald. The Cosmological Arguments: A Spectrum of Opinion. (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967).
Collins, James. God in Modern Philosophy. (Chicago, 1959).
Davies, Brian. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982). Order here.
______. Thinking about God. (London, Geoffrey Chapman, 1985). Order here.
Dodds, Michael, O.P. The Unchanging God of Love. (Fribourg, Suisse: Editiones Universitaires, 1986).
_____. "St. Thomas Aquinas and the Motion of the Motionless God," New Blackfriars. 68 (1987).
Gilson, Etienne. God and Philosophy. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961). Order here.
_____. The Elements of Christian Philosophy. (New York: New American Library, 1965). Order here.
Hankey, Wayne. God in Himself: Aquinas' Doctrine of God as Expounded in the `Summa Theologiae'. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
Hibbs, Thomas S. Dialectic and Narrative in Aquinas: An Interpretation of the Summa Contra Gentiles. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995). Order here.
Kenny, Anthony. The Five Ways. (New York: Schocken, 1969). Order here.
Kretzman, Norman. The Metaphysics of Theism. (Clarendon Press, 1997). Order here.
Long, R. James, ed. Philosophy and the God of Abraham: Essays in Memory of James A. Weisheipl, OP. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1991).
Maritain, Jacques. Approaches to God. (New York, 1967)
Miethe Terry L. "The Ontological Argument: A Research Bibliogoraphy." Modern Schoolman. 54 (1977) 148-166.
_____. "The Cosmological Argument: A Research Bibliography." New Scholsticism. 52 (1978) 285-305.
Moreno, Antonio. "The Law of Inertia and the Principle `Quidquid movetur ab alio movetur'," Thomist 38 (1974) 306-331.
Owens, Joseph. St. Thomas Aquinas on the Existence of God. (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1980).
Prado, C. G. "The Third Way Revisited," New Scholasticism. 45 (1971) 495-501.
Quinn, John. "The Third Way to God: A New Approach," Thomist. 42 (1978) 50-68.
Smith, Vincent E. "The Prime Mover: Physical or Metaphysical Considerations." Proceeedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. 28 (1954) 78-94.
Wallace, William A., O.P. "Newtonian Antinomies against the Prima Via," Thomist. 19 (1956) 151-192.
_____. "The Cosmological Argument: A Reappraisal," Proceeding of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. 46 (1972) 43-57.
Weisheipl, James A., O.P. "Quidquid movetur ab alio movetur: A Reply," New Scholasticism. 42 (1968) 422-431.

Political Theory

Armstrong, R. A. Primary and Secondary Precepts in Thomistic Natural Law Teaching. (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1966).
Finnis, John. Aquinas (Founders of Modern Political Thought). (Oxford University Press, 1998). Order here.
Gilby, Thomas. The Political Thought of Thomas Aquinas. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958).
Hall, Pamela M. Narrative and the Natural Law: An Interpretation of Thomistic Ethics. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994). Order here.
Lisska, Anthony J. Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law : An Analytic Reconstruction (New York: Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1996). Order here.
Maritain, Jacques. Man and the State. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951).
_____. The Person and the Common Good. (New York: Scribner's, 1947).
Malloy, Michael P. Civil Authority in Medieval Philosophy: Lombard, Aquinas, and Bonaventure. (Lanham: University Press of America, 1985).
Murphy, Edward F. St. Thomas' Political Doctrine and Democracy. (Cleveland, Ohio: John T. Zubal, 1983).
Reilly, James P. Saint Thomas on Law. (Toronto, Ont., Canada: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990).
Simon, Yves. The Nature and Functions of Authority. (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1940).

Psychology (Philosophy of Mind)

Abel, Donald C. "Intellectual Substance as Form of the Body in Aquinas," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 69, Supplement (1995) 227-236.
Adler, Mortimer J. "Sense Cognition: Aristotle vs. Aquinas," New Scholasticism 42 (1968) 579-591.
Bertuzzi, Giovanni. "L'immortalita dell'Anima Razionale nella Dottrina di S. Tomasso," Divus Thomas 1 (1992).
Brennan, Sheila O'Flynn. "Sensing and the Sensitive Mean in Aristotle," New Scholasticism 47 (1973) 270-310.
Cohen, Sheldon M. "St. Thomas Aquinas on the Immaterial Reception of Sensible Forms," The Philosophical Review 91 (1982) 193-209.
Foster, David Ruel. "Aquinas on the Immateriality of the Intellect," Thomist 55 (1991).
______."Aquinas' Arguments for Spirit," American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 65, Supplement (1991).
Hackett, Jeremiah, ed. Aquinas on Mind and Intellect: New Essays. (Oakdale, NY: Dowling College Press, 1996).
Haldane, John. "Aquinas and the Active Intellect," Philosophy(UK) 67 (1992).
______. "Aquinas on Sense Perception," The Philosophical Review 92 (1983) 233-239.
Kenny, Anthony. Aquinas on Mind. (New York: Routledge, 1993). Order here.
Martin, James T. "Aquinas as a Commentator on De Anima 3.5," Thomist 57 (1993).
Novak, Joseph. "Aquinas and the Incorruptibility of the Soul," History of Philosophy Quarterly 4 (1987) 405-421.
Schmidt Andrade, Ciro E. "Santo Tomas y el "De Anima" (Comentario a los Caps. 4 y 5 del Libro III del "De Anima" de Aristoteles)," Analogia 8 (1994) 123-136.
Solere, Jean-Luc. "La Notion de Intentionnalite chez Thomas Aquinas," Philosophie(Paris) 24 (1989).

Sacred Theology

Lockey, Paul, ed. Studies in Thomistic Theology. (Houston, TX: Center for Thomistic Studies, 1995). Order here.
Merriell, D. Juvenal. To the Image of the Trinity: A Study in the Development of Aquinas' Teaching. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1990).
O'Meara, Thomas F. Thomas Aquinas Theologian (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997). Order here.

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