PHIL 628 Thomistic Principles in Political Philosophy Today

Lord Acton in one of his Essays in the history of liberty praises Aquinas as "the First Whig." To test the limits of this title we will examine how 20th-century Thomists have drawn upon such concepts as person, liberty, community, practical wisdom (prudence), common good, civitas, common sense, the division of powers, sin, epistemological realism, "secular," and others, from the works of Aquinas.