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Disputed questions

Quaestiones disputatae de malo

A major treatment of evil, sin, free will, temptation, demonic action, and moral disorder.

Datierung

c. 1269-1271

Warum es wichtig ist

It clarifies how Aquinas can treat evil as a privation while still taking sin and responsibility seriously.

Wie man es liest

  1. 1Separate metaphysical evil, moral evil, and punishment.
  2. 2Track the role of will, habit, and culpability.
  3. 3Read its account of freedom beside providence and grace.