Tomas de Aquino ( Italia, 1224/1225-Abadia de Fossanuova, 7 de marzo de 1274) fue un teologo y filosofo catolico perteneciente a la Orden de Predicadores, el principal representante de la ensenanza escolastica, una de las mayores figuras de la teologia sistematica y, a su vez, una de las mayores autoridades en metafisica, hasta el punto de que, despues de muerto, sea el referente de varias escuelas del pensamiento: tomista y neotomista. Es conocido tambien como Doctor Angelico, Doctor Comun y Doctor de la Humanidad, apodos dados por la Iglesia catolica, la cual lo recomienda para los estudios de filosofia y teologia."
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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