PHIL 235 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Deontological Ethics
10 Apr 2020
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Quiz 3: natural law (not the section on bonaventure) Systematic thought was becoming more and more important. Theology"s approach becomes one of integrating, summarizing and articulating its subjects of study. Summas are summary treatises that produced great writings in systematic theology. Two prominent thinkers who contributed to this development were saint. Thomas aquinas (1225-1274) was an italian dominican priest of the roman catholic church and member of the dominican religious order. His work is unparalleled in terms of its influence in the. At the time of aquinas, the writings of aristotle were being rediscovered and aquinas drew on. For aquinas (following aristotle) humans are intellectual beings or rational animals. Key points from aquinas in relation to ethics: Aquinas was concerned with protecting the notion of a human agent who is the responsible author of his or her own actions. Human beings are not just "spectators of the world-order in which everything that happens is caused by god"s will.
