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Political theology

De regno / On Kingship

A political work on rule, kingship, tyranny, civic order, and the common good.

Datierung

c. 1267

Warum es wichtig ist

It is a key source for Aquinas's account of political authority as ordered to shared human flourishing.

Wie man es liest

  1. 1Read the praise of monarchy together with the warnings about tyranny.
  2. 2Keep the common good above ruler preference.
  3. 3Compare it with the law treatise in the Summa Theologiae.