Thomas d'Aquin

saint Thomas d'Aquin · Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274) · 1225–1274

Appears in 6 videos · 6 passages, 1 of them in depth.

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Saint Thomas Aquinas almost always in connection with his relationship to Aristotle. He presents him as the one who makes Aristotle the philosophical inspiration of Christian theology and relies on him to ground that theology1. He also stresses the political significance of this choice. Thomas relies on Aristotle to justify the power of the Church2. As a "great politician", he makes Aristotle the scholastic vulgate, which allows him to argue against the freethinkers3. Dominique Pagani also recalls that he puts Aristotle on the curriculum of theology students4. These mentions, between 2015 and 2021, are brief and return to this same point. They occur in sessions devoted to other subjects, notably Leibniz, historical knowledge or the geopolitical metaphor. In 2024, in a session on Clouscard, he cites the Summa Theologica as the first occurrence of the word "summa"5.

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.

Who is this?

Thomas Aquinas ( ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Catholic theology and Western philosophy. He is the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism. […]

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