Howard I. Schwartz Ph.D.

I have been posting for three months now on St. Thomas Aquinas’s view of...

The development of private property and slavery are like the development of clothing. How...

Did you think everyone was created equal? Not so, according to Aquinas. [This post...

If Adam and Eve had children in the Paradise, what would they have been...

Were Adam and Eve vegetarians? You may be surprised by this answer. [This post...

Was there sexuality and procreation in the Garden of Eden? The answer may not...

Why did Adam and Eve eat food in Paradise? [This post continues my discussion...

According to Thomas Aquinas, private property did not exist in Paradise but arose only...

Aquinas gives three reasons why private property is necessary, drawing heavily from Aristotle’s Politics....

If everything is in common according to natural law, how can there be private...