Philosopher · High and Late Middle Ages · Italy
Thomas Aquinas
1225–1274
Italian Dominican friar whose Summa Theologiae joined Aristotle's philosophy to Christian doctrine in the most complete medieval system. He taught at Paris and Naples. He lived 1225 to 1274 and was canonized in 1323.
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- Born
- 1225, Roccasecca, near Aquino, Italy.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Died
- 1274, Fossanova, Italy, on the way to the Council of Lyon.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Thomas Aquinas
- School
- Scholasticism; his own system is called Thomism.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Known for
- The Summa Theologiae, the five ways of proving God's existence by reason, and the claim that grace perfects nature instead of destroying it.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Thomas Aquinas
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