Thomas Aquinas - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Dec 7, 2022 · A rather conventional summary of medieval natural philosophy, written no later than Aquinas’s term in Paris as a bachelor and perhaps, judging from its content, even earlier than that. Its brevity and philosophical focus makes it useful for novices today.
Aquinas’ Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Dec 2, 2005 · For Thomas Aquinas, as for Aristotle, doing moral philosophy is thinking as generally as possible about what I should choose to do (and not to do), considering my whole life as a field of opportunity (or misuse of opportunity).
Saint Thomas Aquinas - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jul 12, 1999 · In two stints as a regent master Thomas defended the mendicant orders and, of greater historical importance, countered both the Averroistic interpretations of Aristotle and the Franciscan tendency to reject Greek philosophy.
Condemnation of 1277 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jan 30, 2003 · The second doctrinal inquiry was aimed against Thomas Aquinas. It was begun after Giles’s censure, but still before March 28, 1277. According to Robert Wielockx, the inquiry against Thomas Aquinas was never completed.
The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics - Stanford Encyclopedia of …
Sep 23, 2002 · Aquinas was not the only historically important paradigmatic natural law theorist. Thomas Hobbes, for example, was also a paradigmatic natural law theorist.
Augustine of Hippo - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Sep 25, 2019 · Thomas Aquinas and others had little interest in Augustine’s Platonism, and there was a certain tension between the medieval tendency to look for a teachable philosophical and theological system in his texts and his own way of philosophical inquiry that was shaped by the ancient tradition and left room for tentative argument and was open to ...
Jacques Maritain - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Dec 5, 1997 · Jacques Maritain (1882–1973), French philosopher and political thinker, was one of the principal exponents of Thomism in the twentieth century and an influential interpreter of the thought of St Thomas Aquinas.
Cosmological Argument - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jul 13, 2004 · Arabic philosophers (falasifa), such as Ibn Sina (c. 980–1037), developed the argument from contingency, which was taken up by Thomas Aquinas (1225–74) in his Summa Theologica (I,q.2,a.3) and in his Summa Contra Gentiles (I, 13).
Albert the Great - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Mar 20, 2006 · Albertus Magnus, also known as Albert the Great, was one of the most universal thinkers to appear during the Middle Ages. Even more so than his most famous student, St. Thomas of Aquinas, Albert’s interests ranged from natural science all the way to theology.
Dante Alighieri - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Jan 29, 2001 · In particular, Dante cites a dozen works of Aristotle, apparently at first hand, and displays a particularly intimate knowledge of the Ethics, largely derived, no doubt, from Thomas Aquinas. But his Aristotelianism was nourished by other sources as well.