El presente libro comienza con una Introduccion que ofrece la sintesis completa del pensamiento filosofico de Santo Tomas de Aquino, estructurado por temas y ordenado segun su concepcion de la filosofia. Con un lenguaje sencillo y actual, se expone el sistema filosofico-teologico, diseminado a lo largo de la extensisima obra filosofica-teologica del denominado Doctor de la humanidad. El hilo conductor de la exposicion es el caracter platonico de esta sintesis filosofica, que permite trascender las doctrinas aristotelicas, que asume. La seleccion de textos filosoficos de las obras de Santo Tomas, traducidos al castellano, se presentan en la segunda parte de la obra, clasificados en el mismo orden y con los mismos titulos que todos los apartados de la Introduccion precedente. Su contenido esta explicado en el estudio introductorio, que puede considerarse como un compendio esencial de los mismos.
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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