The History of Political Philosophy: From Plato to Rothbard

3. Thomas Aquinas

06/05/2007 David Gordon

David Gordon examines the political and moral philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), showing how he reconciled Aristotle’s teachings with Christian thought and developed a theory of natural law grounded in reason.

Gordon explores Aquinas’s views on individual rights, private property, just prices, interest and usury, and the proper limits of government. He also considers Aquinas’s strict requirements for just war, his defense of resistance to tyranny, and his contributions to the classical liberal tradition.

Lecture 3 of 10 from David Gordon’s The History of Politcal Philosophy: From Plato to Rothbard.

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