The Secular Concern Of Empyrean Heaven

This thesis is intent on pioneering on the research integrity of St. Thomas Aquinas' Economic Ethics. However, in the rare case of previous footprints, I daren't try to make a more comprehensive analysis because it's like an ant trying to shake a giant tree. Therefore, I can only intercept a medieval problem to conduct the study. It is obvious that when I speak or act with a well-defined objective in mind, I can make my own unique viewpoints to better understand the theology of the medieval master of Economic Ethics. So with the help of my mentor, I ultimately selected as the theme --"the temporal care of empyrean heaven" to run through the whole paper. I try to use the philosophical thinking to analyse the contents,values and Enlightenment of the temporal care of empyrean heaven. The "empyrean heaven" means God or Origin of the theologian Thomas Aquinas' Economic Ethics. The "temporal" means medieval economic ethics.The thesis revolves around the framework of the theme -- "The Secular Concern of Empyrean Heaven", with perspective of the theological master Thomas Aquinas' visual area, we can accurately know exemplar virtues and economic government of the empyrean heaven and how it cares or impacts on the temporal. I will concisely explore the fan bottom:①The religious and Ancient Greece's origin of Thomas Aquinas' economic ethics. In the Assimilation of Christian doctrine and the classical theory of ancient Greece, I try to find the origin of the problem consciousness;②The core of Thomas Aquinas' economic ethics. Aquinas explains exemplar virtues and economic government of Christian "empyrean heaven" in his faith and human virtues and the mean of economic of sublunary world;③The philosophical analysis of Thomas Aquinas' economic ethics. Aquinas used the concept of philosophy—the perfection, the happiness, the law, the values to comprehensively and deeply analyse the relation of the two categories between "empyrean heaven" and "temporal". At the same time, the true intention of Thomas Aquinas' Economic Ethics finally emerged: the imaginary "heaven" is the spiritual pillar of the secular Christian and the reason of secular Christian power. So Aquinas agreed with the form of theology to balance the rights and responsibilities between the power of the Pope and the power of the King.④Contemporary inspiration of Thomas Aquinas' economic ethics. Scholars of Western and Chinese are both aware of the respect of "the Angel Doctor" sooner or later in their respective traditions. The idea of Thomas Aquinas' economic ethics is a belief, an authority and a commandment. It rules the whole of Western civilization order and harmony, besides it is also the basis of China's reform and opening-up and blending with the world civilization. Learning from the theoretical value, that setting the goal of the "perfect" and it's possibility becomes the theoretical model of reference. Learning from the perspective of the practical value, solving the contradictions and problems of the current domestic economic construction can be inspired by historical experience.The feet of heaven extend to the secular world, and the head of the secular world must grow up to the heaven, otherwise, the value of human's religious belief will be gone. Thomas Aquinas' economic ethics succeed on practicing the values of religious ethics, and it built a more stable and peaceful order for the life of medieval secular.