Sweet! Finally a faithful translation from all the top tier Catholic philosophers and theologians of today. Understanding Aquinas's works takes much more than just reading his works. You have to be entrenched in not only the philosophical terminology of that day, but even more importantly you need to know what the words we use today originally meant. Words like speculative/practical, per se/accident, object/subject, etc. have completely more lucid (etymology: "bright, shining" not just clear as our current language waters it down to be) meaning in scholastic philosophy. Those that have translated these works know it well. I've been amused at others (atheist, arrogant college kid) who have quickly dismissed Aquinas because they read his five ways in the Summa Theologiae (it is not Theologica) and believe they have found holes in his logic, or is just simply wrong. My atheist friend even told me even his young teenage kids could quickly find holes in his theory. The S.Th. is an advanced work assuming you already have the Aristotelian and scholastic philosophical background, as opposed to modern philosophy starting with Descartes. If you think something you read is silly you need to ask a traditional scholastic/Thomistic philosopher first. Try Dr. Matthew Minerd who loves to help.