Reading Group

Aquinas on Law

Fridays | 9.30-11am | Elm Library

This reading group for undergraduate and graduate students will consider Aquinas’s Treatise on Law from the the Summa Theologiae. Described by Robert Maynard Hutchins as “the greatest of all books on philosophy of law,” the Treatise considers law’s end, form, origin, and kinds.

Discussions will be organized in the style of a studium parvum, with seminar leaders and participants glossing questions and articles in communal reading. Preparation of readings is encouraged but not required. Weekly discussions will take pace on Friday mornings from 9.30 to 11:00am in the Institute Library. Tea, coffee, and breakfast pastries will be served and books will be provided. Those interested in participating should contact Patrick Hough.

Starts September 8.

This group is organized in collaboration with the Thomistic Institute, a project of the Dominican House of Studies.

Law is an ordering by reason, directed toward the common good, made by one who is in charge of the community, and promulgated.

Aquinas, Summa Theologiae