Ethical Economy and Theological Interpretation of Totality in Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae

• Autorzy: Peter Koslowski
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

It is in a 'Summa of Theology', in the second book of this work, dealing with moral theology or ethics, that we find Thomas Aquinas' approaches to a theory of economics. Therefore, we must conclude that Thomas's ideas about economics are, in the first place, closely bound up with ethics and, secondly, that they evolve from the standpoint of a theological view of the world and a personalist interpretation of reality. This is indeed the case: Thomas Aquinas' economic theory is ethical economy within a theological perspective. It is an ethical view of the economy founded on 'theological philosophy'. Economics, for Thomas, is based on a theological interpretation of total reality, on the conviction, therefore, that reality is Creation and that the existence of God is the source and the purpose of all reality, as it is the source and purpose of mankind. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

EN

Economic theory; Ethics; Economy; Morality; Moral philosophy

PL

Teoria ekonomii; Etyka; Gospodarka; Moralność; Filozofia moralna

• Czasopismo: Przegląd Prawno-Ekonomiczny
• Rocznik: 2016
• Numer: nr 34
• Strony: 63--86

Twórcy

autor

Peter Koslowski

• Herdecke University; Free University of Amsterdam

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