How to read it
- 1Separate metaphysical evil, moral evil, and punishment.
- 2Track the role of will, habit, and culpability.
- 3Read its account of freedom beside providence and grace.
Disputed questions
Quaestiones disputatae de malo
A major treatment of evil, sin, free will, temptation, demonic action, and moral disorder.
Date
c. 1269-1271
Why it matters
It clarifies how Aquinas can treat evil as a privation while still taking sin and responsibility seriously.