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Thomas Aquinas

Born

in Rocca Secca, Naples, Italy

November 12, 1224

Died

December 20, 1273

Genre

Catholicism, Philosophy, Religion

Influences

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Thomas Aquinas (sometimes styled Thomas of Aquin or Aquino), was a Dominican friar and priest notable as a scholastic theologian and philosopher. He is honored as a saint and "Doctor of the Church" in the Roman Catholic tradition.

Aquinas lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that had obtained for centuries. This crisis flared up just as universities were being founded. Thomas, after early studies at Montecassino, moved on to the University of Naples, where he met members of the new Dominican Order. It was at Naples too that Thomas had his first extended contact wit ...more

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	Summa Theologica 4.12 avg rating — 3,655 ratings — published 1274 — 323 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Writings by Thomas Aquinas, Ralph McInerny (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 739 ratings — published 1939 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Law, Morality, and Politics by Thomas Aquinas, Richard J. Regan (Translator), William P. Baumgarth (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 668 ratings — published 1274 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Being and Essence by Thomas Aquinas, Armand A. Maurer (translator) 3.96 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 1256 — 82 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas, Richard J. Regan 3.69 avg rating — 513 ratings — published 1265 — 45 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Politics and Ethics by Thomas Aquinas, Paul E. Sigmund 3.81 avg rating — 461 ratings — published 1987 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aquinas's Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas's Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica 4.11 avg rating — 395 ratings — published 1273 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Prayer and The Contemplative Life 3.98 avg rating — 397 ratings — published 1914 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God by Thomas Aquinas, Vernon J. Bourke (Illustrator), Anton C. Pegis (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 298 ratings — published 1259 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Philosophical Writings by Thomas Aquinas, Timothy McDermott (Translator) 3.87 avg rating — 294 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Summa Theologiae (61 books)
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T.C. O'Brien (Editor)

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Catena Aurea (3 books)
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Summa Theologica (1 book)
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Thomas Aquinas

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Summa Theologiae (Latin-English Edition) (8 books)
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Summa Theologica (14 books)
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The Fathers of the English Dominican Province (translator)

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Quotes by Thomas Aquinas (?)

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

tags: agnosticism, aquinas, atheism, faith

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“Beware the man of a single book.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

tags: books-reading, ignorance, illiteracy, limitation

462 likes

“We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.”
― St. Thomas Aquinas

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