![]() He joined the Dominican order and then went north to study with Albertus Magnus, author of a paraphrase of the Aristotelian corpus. At Naples too, Thomas first extended contact with the new learning. Thomas after early studies at Montecassino moved to the University of Naples, where he met members of the new Dominican order. ![]() This crisis flared just as people founded universities. The Roman Catholic tradition honors him as a "doctor of the Church."Īquinas lived at a critical juncture of western culture when the arrival of the Aristotelian corpus in Latin translation reopened the question of the relation between faith and reason, calling into question the modus vivendi that obtained for centuries. ![]() People ably note this priest, sometimes styled of Aquin or Aquino, as a scholastic. ![]() Saint Albertus Magnus taught Saint Thomas Aquinas. Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican friar and theologian of Italy and the most influential thinker of the medieval period, combined doctrine of Aristotle and elements of Neoplatonism, a system that Plotinus and his successors developed and based on that of Plato, within a context of Christian thought his works include the Summa contra gentiles (1259-1264) and the Summa theologiae or theologica (1266-1273). ![]()
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