Like Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas considered all areas of thought his province.As a result, he became unquestionably the most systematic political philosopher of the Middle Ages, as well as an ...

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.

Aquinas, the leading exponent of scholasticism, left an indelible mark on the Catholic Church and Western philosophical tradition. Thomistic theology, adapting the ideas of Aristotle to Christian ...

Thomas Aquinas born. 1274. Thomas Aquinas dies. 1302. Unam Sanctam proclaims papal supremacy. ... Reason, said Thomas (following Aristotle), is based on sensory data—what we can see, feel, hear, ...

Thomas de Vio Cardinal Cajetan (d. 1534)—also a Dominican—was not so sure. He was far more impressed by Aquinas the Aristotelian philosopher. In Cajetan’s view, Aquinas, more than any other scholastic ...

The Christian Structure of Politics: On the De Regno of Thomas Aquinas, by William McCormick, S.J. (The Catholic University of America Press, 2022), 272 pages. McCormick believes this neglect of ...

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.