Identical or Autonomous?
Identical or Autonomous?
The Final Goals of Humanity in St. Thomas’ Aquinas De regno and Dante Alighieris’ De monarchia
Author(s): Piotr GoltzContributor(s): Łukasz Gos-Furmankiewicz (Translator)
Subject(s): History, Political history, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries
Published by: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
Keywords: history;St. Thomas Aquinas;Dante Alighieri;
Summary/Abstract: This study reflects on questions of a beginning and an end in the view of St. Thomas Aquinas and Dante Alighieri. Critical and comparative analysis will show: (1) in what ways the authors perceived the ultimate goals of humanity; (2) what impact doing so had on their political outlooks.
Journal: Historia Slavorum Occidentis
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 163-180
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English