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Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas


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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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
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There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
topics: Happiness  
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So if the ultimate felicity of man does not consist in external things which are called the goods of fortune, nor in the goods of the body, nor in the goods of the soul according to its sensitive part, nor as regards the intellective part according to the activity of the moral virtues, nor according to the intellectual virtues that are concerned with action, that is art and prudence – we are left with the conclusion that the ultimate felicity of man lies the contemplation of truth.
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Therefore our natural desire for knowledge cannot come to rest within us until we know the first cause, and that not in any way, but in its very essence. The first cause is God. Consequently the ultimate end of an intellectual creature is the vision of God in His essence” (The Divine Trinity, Chapter 104).
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Agere sequitur esse.
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A forma é anterior à matéria. A matéria é o ente em potência, e a forma é o acto dela. Ora, o acto naturalmente é anterior à potência. Simplesmente falando, o acto é anterior à potência no tempo, porque a potência não pode ser movida ao acto a não ser pelo ente em acto. Entretanto, em uma e mesma coisa, a qual às vezes está em potência e às vezes está em acto, a potência precede ao acto no tempo. Desta maneira, fica claro que a forma é anterior à matéria, e é mais ente do que a matéria. E isto porque a matéria não se torna ente em acto a não ser pela forma. Logo, a forma é mais ente do que a matéria.
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I fear the man of a single book.
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Good can exist without evil whereas evil cannot exist without good.
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Este mai de dorit minimul de cunoaștere a lucrurilor foarte importante decât cunoașterea socotită, foarte sigură a lucrurilor foarte mărunte.
topics: cunoaștere  
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Não olheis de onde vem a verdade.
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deliberation we may hesitate; but a deliberated act must be performed swiftly
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An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.
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It is not our body which feels, not our mind which thinks, but we, as single human beings, who both feel and think.
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[Aristotle] shows how currency serves as a measure...[I]f men always needed immediately the goods they have among themselves, they would have no need of any exchange except of thing for thing, e.g., wine for grain. But sometimes one man (who has a surplus of wine at present) does not need the grain that another man has (who is in need of wine), but perhaps later he will need the grain or some other product. In this way then for the necessity of future exchange, money or currency is, as it were, a surety that if a man has no present need but may want in the future, the thing he needs will be available when he presents the currency.
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Achamos na natureza coisas que podem existir ou não existir, pois vemos seres que se produzem, e seres que se destroem, e, portanto, há possibilidade de que existam e de que não existam. Muito bem. É impossível que os seres de tal condição tenham existido sempre, já que o que tem possibilidade de não ser teve um tempo em que não foi. Se, pois, todas as coisas tem a possibilidade de não ser, houve um tempo em que nenhuma existia. Mas se isto é verdade, tampouco deveria existir agora coisa alguma, porque o que não existe, não começa a existir, a não ser em virtude do que já existe, e, portanto, se nada existia, foi impossível que começasse a existir qualquer coisa, e, em conseqüência, agora não haveria nada, coisa evidentemente falsa. Por conseguinte, nem todos os seres são possíveis ou contingentes, mas entre eles, forçosamente, há de haver algum que seja necessário. Mas o ser necessário ou tem a razão de sua necessidade em si mesmo ou não a tem. Se sua necessidade depende de outro, como não é possível, segundo já vimos ao tratar das causas eficientes, aceitar uma série indefinida de coisas necessárias, é forçoso que exista algo que seja necessário por si mesmo e que não tenha fora de si a causa de sua necessidade, mas que seja causa da necessidade dos outros, ao qual todos chamam Deus.
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Veritas filia temporis
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In accepting or rejecting opinions, a man must not be influenced by love or hatred of him who offers the opinions, but only by the certainty of the truth.
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If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.
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If you want to be saved look the face of your Christ.
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There are four things whereby a man perfects his memory. • First, when a man wishes to remember a thing, he should take some suitable yet unwonted illustration of it, since the unwonted strikes us more, and so makes a greater and stronger impression on the mind. • Secondly, whatever a man wishes to retain in his memory he must carefully consider to put in order, so that he may pass easily from one memory to another. • Thirdly, we must be anxious and earnest about the things we wish to remember, because the more a thing is impressed on the mind, the less it is liable to slip out of it. • Fourthly, we should often reflect on the things we wish to remember ... wherefore when we reflect on a thing frequently, we quickly call it to mind, through passing from one thing to another by a kind of natural order.
topics: memory  
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