1225 - 1274

Nationality:
Italian

Historical Period:
The Medieval Period

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• Goodrich Seminar Room

Aquinas was born near Aquino, Sicily and was an Italian Dominican theologian whose scholarship propelled him to the first rank among the Scholastics of the Middle Ages. His major works are the Summa theologica and the Summa contra gentiles.

Titles:

• Author: Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, 2 vols.
• Author: Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, vol. 1
• Author: Aquinas Ethicus: or, the Moral Teaching of St. Thomas, vol. 2
• Author: The “Summa Theologica” of St. Thomas Aquinas. Part I. 10 vols.
• Author: The “Summa Theologica” of St. Thomas Aquinas. Part I QQ I.-XXVI. Vol. 1.
• Author: The “Summa Theologica” of St. Thomas Aquinas. Part I QQ XXVII-XLIX. Vol. 2
• Author: The “Summa Theologica” of St. Thomas Aquinas. Part I QQ L.-LXXIV. Vol. 3
• Author: The “Summa Theologica” of St. Thomas Aquinas. Part I QQ LXXV._CII. Vol. 4 (Treatise on Man)

Quotations:

• St. Thomas Aquinas discusses the three conditions for a just war (1265-74)
• Thomas Aquinas on why the law should not punish imperfect men for practising vices which do not harm others (1274)

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