How to read it
- 1Read the praise of monarchy together with the warnings about tyranny.
- 2Keep the common good above ruler preference.
- 3Compare it with the law treatise in the Summa Theologiae.
Political theology
De regno / On Kingship
A political work on rule, kingship, tyranny, civic order, and the common good.
Date
c. 1267
Why it matters
It is a key source for Aquinas's account of political authority as ordered to shared human flourishing.