On Evil [Paperback]

This long-awaited translation, based on the critical edition of the Latin text published by the Leonine Commission in 1982, is now available in paperback. The disputed questionDe malo (On Evil)was first presented as a series of oral debates at the University of Paris and subsequently recorded in the form in which it now appears. The length of the work and the thoroughness of the treatment is eloquent testimony of the importance St. Thomas attached to this topic.

“Great care has been lavished on the text, and the result is a clear and readable rendering. . . . A valuable addition to the growing list of Thomas’s works available in English.” —Religious Studies Review

“Plumbing the theological problem of evil–a classic intellectual and emotional struggle in religion–now seems a newly urgent task, a fact reflected in... a new translation of Aquinas’sOn Evilby John and Jean Oesterle (Notre Dame).” —Publishers Weekly,February 18, 2002

". . . A mature and major work [that] deals with both philosophical and theological aspects of the nature of evil, its causes and kinds, the main classes of sin, freedom, original sin, and devils. . . ." —Choice

The lateJohn A. Oesterlewas the author ofLogic: The Art of Defining and Reasoningand the translator ofTreatise on HappinessandTreatise on the Virtues, both published by the University of Notre Dame Press.  The lateJean T. Oesterlewas the translator ofSt. Thomas's and Cajetan's Commentary on Aristotle's Perihermeneias (On the Enunciation).