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Thomas Aquinas inherits the Aristotelian tradition, enriched by the views of Cicero, Augustine and Arab philosophers. Ethics is most often described as „moral philosophy”, which seems to indicate that it is about the science of morality, which is an integral part of philosophy. As such, it deals with principles. In the case of ethics these are the principles of choosing the moral good. In this way Aquinas defines the subject of ethics. It is different from the subjects of other philosophical disciplines. In Aquinas’s approach, ethics is autonomous in terms of subject, but methodologically it depends on metaphysics and anthropology