IT was most likely in the lecture halls of the University of Paris that St Albert the Great first took St Thomas Aquinas ...

Aquinas had a much higher opinion of slaves than Aristotle. He considered that slaves had some restricted rights. A son, as such, belongs to his father, and a slave, as such, belongs to his master ...

Massive and unusually elongated, “The Triumph of St. Thomas Aquinas” depicts the 13th-century saint throned in a golden sun, with Aristotle and Plato standing reverently on either side.

What are the difference in the ways reason and faith operate? How does Aquinas draw on Aristotle? How does he depart from or go beyond him? Is there any Plato here? Augustine? How does this compare to ...

Whereas Augustine spoke of the theological foundations of citizenship, Aquinas, following Aristotle, thought of citizenship as a natural aspect of human life. Aquinas considered politics to be ...

Along with Aristotle, Aquinas sees the good life as the virtuous life, and we need friends to receive many of our acts of virtue. There’s nothing too controversial here, we might think. However, ...

In my humble opinion, Fr Pandith’s final aim was not to master Aristotle, Aquinas or Hegel. He was in profound search of the truth about Being, with a view to understanding man in relation to ...

By universal consent, Thomas Aquinas is the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine revelation ...

Time is not itself in motion, but rather is associated with the numbering of motion. This leads Aquinas to redefine Aristotle’s notion of time as “nothing other than the number of motion according to ...

Saint Thomas Aquinas, by Carlo Crivelli ©National Gallery, London. Source: Christian Art. Gospel of 28 January 2025 Mark 3:31 ...