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Thomas Aquinas on Preferential Love

In Thomas Kelly & Philipp Rosemann (eds.), Amor amicitiae: on the Love that is Friendship. Essays in Medieval Thought and Beyond in Honor of the Rev. Professor James McEvoy. Peeters Publishers (2004)

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  1. Aquinas and the obligations of mercy.Shawn Floyd - 2009 - Journal of Religious Ethics 37 (3):449-471.
    Contemporary philosophers often construe mercy as a supererogatory notion or a matter of punitive leniency. Yet it is false that no merciful actions are obligatory. Further, it is questionable whether mercy is really about punitive leniency, either exclusively or primarily. As an alternative to these accounts, I consider the view offered by St. Thomas Aquinas. He rejects the claim that we are never obligated to be merciful. Also, his view of mercy is not restricted to legal contexts. For him, mercy's (...)
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