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tomas aquinas
A PRESENTATION
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I WHO IS TOMAS AQUINAS?

II WHAT WAS HE KNOWN FOR?

III PHILOSOPHY AND CONCEPT OF SELF

IV GROUP’S COMPATIBILITY WITH TOMAS

AQUINAS
I Who is Tomas
Aquinas?
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Thomas Aquinas was born near
Aquino, halfway between Rome
and Naples, around the year
1225. He was the youngest of
at least nine children, and born
into a wealthy family that
presided over a prominent
castle in Roccasecca.
Joining the order at the age of nineteen,
he was assigned to Paris for further
study, but his plans were delayed by the
intransigency of his parents, who had
hoped he would play a leading role at the
venerable local monastery, Monte
Cassino, where he had studied as a child.
Thomas spent three years in Paris,
studying philosophy, and then was sent
to Cologne, in 1248, under the
supervision of Albert the Great.
II What was he
known for?
Summa Theologiae
The Summa theologiae (ST) generally represents
Aquinas’s most considered thought on a given topic, and
the work is comprehensive enough that it contains at
least some discussion of almost all of Aquinas’s
intellectual concerns. Part 1 deals primarily with God and
is comprised of discussions of 119 questions concerning
the existence and nature of God, the Creation, angels, the
work of the six days of Creation, the essence and nature
of man, and divine government. Part 2 deals with man and
includes discussions of 303 questions concerning the
purpose of man, habits, types of law, vices and virtues,
prudence and justice, fortitude and temperance, graces,
and the religious versus the secular life.
Part 3 of Summa Theologica deals with Christ and is
comprised of discussions of 90 questions concerning the
Incarnation, the Sacraments, and the Resurrection.
III Philosophy
and Concept
of Self
Thomism
In terms of Philosophies given to us by
Thomas Aquinas, he tries to prove the
compatibility of science and religion in the
path of truth and knowledge by making
Thomism.

Thomism is a school of thought that

stresses the importance of reason and
tradition. It is, of course, named after St
Thomas Aquinas
 four laws
Aquinas recognizes four main kinds of
law: the eternal, the natural, the human,
and the divine. The last three all depend
on the first, but in different ways.
Human reason is acquired through what
we gathered thriugh our senses and
those that we cannot are due to the
four laws.
matter and form
Man is composed of two arts: matter
and form. Matter or hyle in Greek, refers
to the common stuff that makes up the
universe. Form, on the other hand, or
morphe in greek, refers to the essence
of a substance or thing.

The soul is what animates the body; it is

what makes us humans.
Laurence Sarte Rionel Biloro

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