Author: Aquinas, Thomas; Introduction: Schultz, Janice L.
Thomas Aquinas in Translation; Paperback
132 pages
Published: March 2001
Catholic University of America Press
ISBN: 0813209951

This volumes presents Aquinas's commentary on Boethius's sixth-century work known as the De hebdomadibus. The introduction to this translation provides critical historical background for understanding Boethius's view of being. The English translation is in facing-page format with the 1992 Leonine critical edition of Aquinas's Latin text.In his sixth-century work known as the De hebdomadibus, Boethius (ca. 480-524) poses the question of how created things or substances can be good just as they are without being the same as the source of all goodness, God. The introduction provides a background to understanding Boethius' views.