Aquinas- (Roman Catholic Church) Italian theologian and Doctor of the Church who is remembered for his attempt to reconcile faith and reason in a comprehensive theology; presented philosophical proofs of the existence of God (1225-1274)
Akrasia is thus the concept which Aristotle's understanding of wrongdoing has in common with a Biblical account of sin; and it functions as the link and pivot for Thomas's work of harmonizing, as far as possible, the Aristotelian ethic with a Christian oneJean Alden Mccurdy Meade...
Born in 1225 in Roccasecca, a small town in Southern Latium, Thomas Aquinas became the best-knownexponentof Scholasticism and the philosopher who brought to fruition the adaptation of Aristotelian thought from a Christian perspective. The son of Landulf Count of Aquinas, Thomas was educated at fi...
Thomas Aquinas was a scholastic theologian active in the thirteenth century, when scholars of the Latin West were assimilating the Aristotelian corpus (rendered into Latin by 1200). These writings and the Islamic-Judeo commentary tradition that accompanied their reception transformed every field of phil...
Aquinas is regarded as the most significant medieval figure of scholasticism. He reconciled the faith of Christian theology with Aristotelian reason. His incomplete Summa Theologica (1266–73) made intellectual arguments for the existence of God based on reason and observation—Aquinas’s “five proofs...
(1225–1274) was a theologian and philosopher who sought to reconcile Christiantheology with the philosophy of Aristotle. His most famous work, the"Summa Theologica," is a comprehensive synthesis of theology andphilosophy. Aquinas's understanding of God is deeply influenced by Aristotelianmetaphysics ...
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He is best known for his work in integrating Aristotelian philosophy with Christian theology. What is theSumma Theologica?
In his treatise on kingship, De regno, Thomas combines the dogmas of Christianity and the doctrine of the pope’s supreme authority with such Aristotelian concepts as the idea of man as a social being, the common good as a goal of the state, and morality as the middle point between the ...
WEITHMAN THE REDISCOVERY OF Aristotelian moral thought in the thirteenth century influenced medieval political theory profoundly. Recovery of Aristotl... Weithman,Paul J. - 《Journal of the History of Philosophy》 被引量: 20发表: 1992年 The passions of Christ's soul in the theology of St. ...
to say about this. Now, that is also the main foundation of Aquinas' ethics. It is based on happiness, eudaemonistic, as they say, but of course, being a Christian, he adds an extra level of happiness, whereas Aristotelian happiness is to be found principally, and not totally, in the...