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Patricia PascualFebruary 16, 2011Theory of Knowledge
http://thesplendorofthechurch.blogspot.com/2010/04/st-thomas-aquinas-and-universities.html
Born in Rocca Secca (Italy) to a fairly wealthy family (Kennedy)
Was curious about God as a child
Family was unsupportive of his decision to join the Order of Dominicans1 (“Thomas”) http://www.pickatrail.com/jupiter/map/italy.html
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Attended a monastery at a young age: Montecassino (McInerny)
Attended University of Naples and studied to become a Dominican (McInerny)
Studied under Albertus Magnus at Paris and Cologne2 (“Thomas”)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/AlbertusMagnus.jpg/250px-AlbertusMagnus.jpg
Spent most of his life praying, preaching, writing, and traveling (Kennedy) Most popular work: The Summa
Theologica (Kennedy) In 1274, the pope sent him to
the Council of Lyons3 where he fell ill (“Thomas”)
Died later that year (“Thomas”)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Theologica
Lived and taught during Medieval time (“Thomas”)
Monastery schools followed liberal arts tradition4 and preserved classical knowledge from the 6th Century (McInerney)
http://www.ciociariatour.com/SAMPLEITINERARIES/tabid/65/Default.aspx
Previous schools Montecassino: initial exposure to Catholicism
and liberal arts (Kennedy) Albertus Magnus
Learned the Aristotelian method (“Thomas”) Guided his transition from liberal arts to
more secular learning (“Kennedy”) New Order of the Dominicans
Lived according to their instruction (McInerny)
“The sensing subject is, say, the animal, but the
proximate subjects to which they are attributed are the powers of sight, touch, hearing, and the
like. An instance of seeing is describable as the power's moving from not seeing to seeing. Since the object of seeing is color, the change from not seeing to seeing
issues in the power having the form of color” (McInerney).
Adopted Aristotle’s analysis of sense perception (Adler) However, disagreed with Aristotle’s idea that since
thinking doesn’t use a sense organ, it is not the same as perception (McInerny)▪ Leads to the idea that thinking is not an ability of the human
soul which goes against Christian principles (McInerny)
Adler, Mortimer J. “Sense Cognition: Aristotle vs. Aquinas”. 1968. Institute for Philosophical Research. 11 Feb. 2011.
<http://www.ditext.com/adler/sense.html>. Kennedy, Daniel. “St. Thomas Aquinas”. The Catholic
Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 11 Feb. 2011. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm>.
McInerny, Ralph and O'Callaghan, John. "Saint Thomas Aquinas”. 2010. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Edward N. Zalta (ed.). 11 Feb. 2011. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ aquinas/#LifeWork>.
“Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)”. 6 May 2009. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 9 Feb. 2011. <http://www.iep.utm.edu/aquinas/>.