Drawing deeply on the views of Thomas Aquinas, He Became Poor challenges the modern economic tendency toward the -proprietary self- and calls for a renewed appreciation of the virtues of trusting receptivity and humble awareness of our membership in a larger benevolent order. Christopher Franks reveals how the summons to become poor bestows a new intelligibility on formerly obscure economic teachings. In the course of his discussion Franks juxtaposes Aquinas with Aristotle, John Locke, and Alasdair MacIntyre.
This book makes a provocative case for taking Aquinas's...
Drawing deeply on the views of Thomas Aquinas, He Became Poor challenges the modern economic tendency toward the -proprietary self- and ...
