Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.
Thomas Aquinas and Nicomachean Ethics
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Nicomachean Ethics.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Aristotle.
Evidence ledger
- The Summa's Prima Secundae treatise on happiness and virtue is structured throughout around Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, which Aquinas also wrote a full commentary on.