"Argues that the principle 'art imitates nature' is an essential part of Aquinas's natural law theory, and ultimately explains how practical reason imitates or follows the divine mind or art...significant in that it sheds light on some basic issues in our knowledge and understanding of the natural law."—Thomas M. Osborne, author of
Human Action in Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham"An excellently clear and comprehensive study of a much neglected element in Aquinas's moral theory. While illuminating Aquinas's work, this book is also attuned to, and allows one to respond to, challenges to a metaphysically grounded ethics. It should be of interest to Aquinas scholars and to anyone with an interest in the foundation of ethics."—Paul O'Grady, Trinity College Dublin
"Wojciech Golubiewski provides a nuanced and carefully argued account of Aquinas's understanding of nature, order, and the imitation of nature....Golubiewski perceptively draws the reader's attention to insights in St Thomas's account that robustly defend the relation between metaphysics and moral philosophy and resist some recent versions of natural law theory."—William Sweet, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
"Aquinas on Imitation of Nature... attempts to reconfigure the synthetic view of man and cosmos lost in our post-Cartesian and post-Baconian world. In doing so, Golubiewski importantly returns our attention to an enchanted cosmos that teems with life and excitement in Aquinas's mind. We encounter the sacramental imitation that preoccupies Thomas and should preoccupy us."—VoegelinView
"Aquinas on Imitation of Nature revives – in a very important way – the understanding that the 'imitation of nature' is the 'imitation of the divine mind'. This is something worth noting, especially since, as Golubiewski points out, the unity of God and nature in Thomistic theology and natural law theory is often neglected The most significant value of the work, we could say, is that it becomes a permanent reminder that natural theology is a form of sacramentality and not of naturalism."—Estudios Filosóficos
