Thomas Aquinas | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-14

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Thomas Aquinas


00:02:31 1 Biography
00:02:40 1.1 Early life (1225–1244)
00:05:59 1.2 Paris, Cologne, Albert Magnus, and first Paris regency (1245–1259)
00:09:00 1.3 Naples, Orvieto, Rome (1259–1268)
00:13:46 1.4 Quarrelsome second Paris regency (1269–1272)
00:16:16 1.5 Final days and "straw" (1272–1274)
00:19:26 1.6 Claims of levitation
00:19:53 1.7 Condemnation of 1277
00:22:05 1.8 Canonization
00:23:29 2 Philosophy
00:24:35 2.1 Commentaries on Aristotle
00:25:01 2.2 Epistemology
00:26:02 2.3 Ethics
00:32:18 2.4 Political order
00:33:44 2.5 Psychology
00:37:06 3 Theology
00:38:20 3.1 Revelation
00:39:22 3.1.1 Preserving nature within grace
00:40:16 3.2 Creation
00:41:54 3.3 Just war
00:43:30 3.3.1 School of Salamanca
00:45:14 3.4 Nature of God
00:48:25 3.5 Nature of Sin
00:49:36 3.6 Nature of the Trinity
00:50:47 3.7 iPrima causa/i (first cause)
00:51:14 3.8 Nature of Jesus Christ
00:55:06 3.9 Goal of human life
00:56:18 3.10 Treatment of heretics
01:00:11 3.11 Magic and its practitioners
01:02:09 3.12 Thoughts on afterlife and resurrection
01:06:10 4 Modern influence
01:08:18 5 Russell's criticism of Thomas as philosopher
01:10:22 6 Works
01:11:38 7 See also



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Saint Thomas Aquinas  (; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. "Thomas of Aquino"; 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. The name Aquinas identifies his ancestral origins in the county of Aquino in present-day Lazio, Italy.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism; of which he argued that reason is found in God. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory. Unlike many currents in the Church of the time, Thomas embraced several ideas put forward by Aristotle—whom he called "the Philosopher"—and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christianity. His best-known works are the Disputed Questions on Truth (1256–59), the Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265), and the Summa Theologiae (1265–1274). His commentaries on Scripture and on Aristotle also form an important part of his body of work. Furthermore, Thomas is distinguished for his eucharistic hymns, which form a part of the Church's liturgy.The Catholic Church honors Thomas Aquinas as a saint and regards him as the model teacher for those studying for the priesthood, and indeed the highest expression of both natural reason and speculative theology. In modern times, under papal directives, the study of his works was long used as a core of the required program of study for those seeking ordination as priests or deacons, as well as for those in religious formation and for other students of the sacred disciplines (philosophy, Catholic theology, church history, liturgy, and canon law).Thomas Aquinas is considered one of the Catholic Church's greatest theologians and philosophers. Pope Benedict XV declared: "This (Dominican) Order ... acquired new luster when the Church declared the teaching of Thomas to be her own and that Doctor, honored with the special praises of the Pontiffs, the master and patron of Catholic schools." The English philosopher Anthony Kenny considers Thomas to be "one of the dozen greatest philosophers of the western world".