Excerpt from D. Thomae Aquinatis Quaestiones Disputatae De Veritate: Quaestio XI
Thomae Aquinatis, de veritate Xl.2. Praeterea, si homo docet, nonnisi per aliqua signa: quia si etiam rebus ipsis aliqua doceri videan tur, utpote si aliquo quaerente quid sit ambulare, ali quis ambulet, tamen hoc non sufficit ad docendum, nisi Signum aliquod adjungatur, ut Augustinus dicit in lib. De Magistro (cap. X. 11. Et probat eo quod in eadem re plura conveniunt, unde nesciretur quan tum ad quid de illa re demonstratio fiat; utrum quan tum ad substantiam, vel quantum ad accidens aliquod eius. Sed per Signum non potest deveniri in cognitio nem rerum; quia rerum cognitio potior est quam sig norum (ibid. Cap. IX. N. Cum signorum cognitio ad rerum cognitionem ordinetur sicut ad iinem: effec tus autem non est potior sua causa. Ergo nullus potest tradere alicui cognitionem aliquarum rerum, et sic non potest eum docere.
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Thomas Aquinas was an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism, known as Doctor Angelicus and Doctor Communis.
He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of the Thomistic school of philosophy and theology. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with, his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law and political theory.
The philosophy of Aquinas has exerted enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Roman Catholic Church, extending to Western philosophy in general, where he stands as a vehicle and modifier of Aristotelianism, which he fused with the thought of Augustine.
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