It is well known that Aristotle’s Metaphysics presents historians with many problems of literary history. The fourteen books of "first philosophy" available today did not originally form one single work which Aristotle himself planned and authored. This work as we have it is rather the result of a compilation after its author’s death. His disciples have joined together different writings which reflect their master’s teaching at different points in his career. Consequently, historians are confronted with problems of chronology, both absolute (...) and relative, with respect to each of the parts they distinguish in our version of the Metaphysics. One’s understanding of Aristotle’s thought and of the development of his teaching depends in large part on the solution to these problems. (shrink)

Cette excellente synthèse s'en tient à exposer l'articulation de la philosophie de Thomas d'Aquin sans aborder son oeuvre théologique. L'auteur termine par une évaluation de l'importance du thomisme à l'époque de saint Thomas et des conditions d'une renaissance du thomisme aujourd'hui.