Reading The Summa

Why this Question Matters. Aquinas is moving towards the culmination of the “Treatise on the Angels” where he will address the puzzling ques...

Why this Question Matters. This question summarizes a number of questions about the creation of the angels and ties up a few loose ends abou...

Why this Question Matters. In Ia.q59.a1 Aquinas divided appetite into three classes: the natural, the sensory and the intellectual. What cha...

Why this Question Matters. Having dealt with knowledge and the angelic intellect, Aquinas now turns to the question of angelic will. Are ang...

Why this Question Matters. This is the last question in the series on angelic knowledge. If the previous questions have their centre of grav...

Why this Question Matters. Having discussed the angels’ knowledge of immaterial things in the previous question, it seems quite natural that...

Why this Question Matters. It’s now time for Aquinas to become more specific about what the angels know. In the next question he discusses t...

Why this Question Matters. This question continues Aquinas’s inquiry into the knowledge that angels have and how they acquire it. Having d...

Preamble Aquinas now turns to a series of questions (Ia.qq54-58) about how an angel’s intellect works and, in particular, its knowledge. A...

You will, no doubt, have observed that nothing has been added to this site for a little while. My apologies, I am still here! The considerat...

Why this Question Matters. In Ia.q52 Aquinas has argued that we can consider angels to be “in place” in a sense that is determined by the wa...