This page intentionally left blank CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT AQUINAS: POLITICAL WRITINGS CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT Serieseditors R G, ReaderinPhilosophy,UniversityofCambridge Q S, RegiusProfessorofModernHistoryinthe UniversityofCambridge CambridgeTextsintheHistoryofPoliticalThoughtisnowfirmlyes- tablishedasthemajorstudenttextbookseriesinpoliticaltheory.Itaims tomakeavailabletostudentsallthemostimportanttextsinthehistory ofwesternpoliticalthought,fromancientGreecetotheearlytwentieth century.Allthefamiliarclassictextswillbeincluded,buttheseriesseeks atthesametimetoenlargetheconventionalcanonbyincorporatingan extensive range of less well-known works, many of them never before availableinamodernEnglishedition.Whereverpossible,textsarepub- lished in complete and unabridged form, and translations are specially commissionedfortheseries.Eachvolumecontainsacriticalintroduction togetherwithchronologies,biographicalsketches,aguidetofurtherread- ingandanynecessaryglossariesandtextualapparatus.Whencompleted theserieswillaimtoofferanoutlineoftheentireevolutionofwestern politicalthought. Foralistoftitlespublishedintheseries,pleaseseeendofbook. ST THOMAS AQUINAS POLITICAL WRITINGS     R.W. DYSON           The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom    The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©in the selection, translation and editorial matter, Cambridge University Press 2004 First published in printed format 2002 ISBN 0-511-02082-1 eBook(netLibrary) ISBN 0-521-37569-X hardback ISBN 0-521-37595-9 paperback   Neglorierisdediecrastino,quianescis quidpariturussitdies Contents Preface pagexv Abbreviations xvi Introduction xvii AbriefchronologyofStThomas’slife xxxvii Bibliography xxxviii  Governmentandpolitics  (a) Summa theologiae Ia : Concerning the dominion whichbelongedtomaninthestateofinnocence  articulus:Whethermenwereequalinthestateof innocence  articulus:Whetherinthestateofinnocenceman wouldhavehaddominionoverman  (b) Thetreatise‘Deregimineprincipum’or‘Deregno’  Preface  Book  Book  (c) SummatheologiaeIaIIae::Concerningthereason forthejudicialprecepts[oftheOldTestament]  articulus : Whether the old law enjoined suitable preceptsconcerningrulers   Obedience  (a) SummatheologiaeIIaIIae:Onobedience  articulus:Whetheronemanisboundtoobey another  vii Contents articulus:Whetherobedienceisaspecificvirtue  articulus:Whetherobedienceisthegreatestofthe virtues  articulus:WhetherGodistobeobeyedinallthings  articulus:Whethersubjectsareboundtoobeytheir superiorsinallthings  articulus:WhetherChristiansareboundtoobey thesecularpowers  (b) Scriptasuperlibrossententiarum,Dist.,quaest.  articulus:WhetherChristiansareboundtoobey thesecularpowers,andtyrantsinparticular   Law  (a) SummatheologiaeIaIIae:Theessenceoflaw  articulus:Whetherlawissomethingbelongingto reason  articulus:Whetherlawisalwaysdirectedtothe commongood  articulus:Whetherthereasonofanyone whatsoevercanmakelaws  articulus:Whetherpromulgationisessentialtolaw  (b) SummatheologiaeIaIIae:Thevariouskindsoflaw  articulus:Whetherthereisaneternallaw  articulus:Whetherthereisanaturallawinus  articulus:Whetherthereisahumanlaw  articulus:Whetheritwasnecessaryfortheretobe aDivinelaw  articulus:WhetherthereisonlyoneDivinelaw  articulus:Whetherthereisa‘lawoflust’[lexfomitis]  (c) SummatheologiaeIaIIae:Theeffectsoflaw  articulus : Whether it is an effect of law to make mengood  articulus:Whetherthefunctionsoflaware properlydescribed[ascommanding,prohibiting, permittingandpunishing]  (d) SummatheologiaeIaIIae:Theeternallaw  articulus:Whethertheeternallawissupreme reasonexistinginGod  articulus:Whethertheeternallawisknowntoall men  viii