Is the Individual Subordinate to the City? A Response through a Consideration of Contemplation
The relationship between the individual person and the political community has been intensely debated by disciples of St. Thomas Aquinas. On the one hand, St. Thomas teaches that the whole is more perfect than the part, which suggests that the individual is ordered to the city as to an end. On the o...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
The Thomist
Year: 2025, Volume: 89, Issue: 1, Pages: 65-108 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NBC Doctrine of God NBD Doctrine of Creation NBE Anthropology NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Contemplation
B Ethics B Common Good B Happiness B Aquinas B Politics B Community |
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