Reading Group

Aquinas on Law

Fridays | 9.30-11.00am | 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 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. Those interested in participating should contact Patrick Hough.

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