Excerpt from Opuscules de Saint Thomas d'Aquin, Vol. 1
Saint Thomas, dans le fond, est clair et transparent. Ses oeuvres sont un chef -d'oeuvre de methode, d'ordre et de discussion; les matieres les plus difficiles y sont traitees avec la clarte dont elles sont susceptibles et dans les termes les plus propres a preciser la doctrine, a empecher les esprits d'aller au - dela des justes limites; mais il n'en est pas moins vrai de dire que cette multitude de formules etranges et a demi comprises, qui herissent sa diction et son argumentation repand une veritable obscurite et jette souvent dans un embarras serieux. Il y a donc lieu de craindre qu'en voulant mettre saint Thomas en francais on aboutisse a un resultat different de celui que l'on avoit en vue que l'on ne diminue la clarte et la vigueur de ce qui est clair en ajoutant a l'obscurite de ce qui est obscur. Un seul moyen se presente pour obvier a cet inconvenient capital ce seroit de joindre au texte des explications et des commentaires chose qui n'a pu entrer dans notre projet. Donc notre opinion que partagent, du reste, un grand nombre d'hommes competents est que la meilleure traduction ne vaudra jamais le texte latin de saint Thomas.
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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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