Social matter according to Thomas Aquinas
Bonnet, Stéphane
Social matter according to Thomas Aquinas - 2020.
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Aristotle argued that man is by nature a political animal. Thomas Aquinas added that he is also a social one. Such an addition amounts to a radical alteration of the Aristotelian proposition. For Aquinas, the human individual is first of all part of the social matter understood as multitude, and this matter is ordered according to the order of reason in a way that is not immediately political, even if it requires politics as a secondary order subordinated to that of reason.
Social matter according to Thomas Aquinas - 2020.
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Aristotle argued that man is by nature a political animal. Thomas Aquinas added that he is also a social one. Such an addition amounts to a radical alteration of the Aristotelian proposition. For Aquinas, the human individual is first of all part of the social matter understood as multitude, and this matter is ordered according to the order of reason in a way that is not immediately political, even if it requires politics as a secondary order subordinated to that of reason.
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