The Arguments of Aquinas is intended for readers with philosophical
interests, who may not be specialists in medieval philosophy. Some
think that a medieval saint must be, as such, wrong, dated, and
boring; others feel that a saint, any saint, must be right,
relevant, and inspirational. Both groups are likely to misread
Aquinas, if indeed they read him at all. The works of great
philosophers are products of their times, but that does not lessen
their value for us. We profit by reading the works of St Thomas in
the same interested but critical way that we read the works of our
contemporaries. MacIntosh does not hesitated to compare Thomas's
arguments with those of later philosophers as well as with those of
his contemporaries and earlier philosophers. He chooses topics from
a variety of still interesting problem areas: the existence and
attributes of God, including God's foreknowledge and human free
will, causality and the origin of the universe, time and necessity,
human souls, angels, and the problem of evil. Additionally, the
volume looks at his views on honesty and lying, and on human
sexuality, on which he is, as ever, philosophically interesting
whether or not we accept his conclusions.
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