the Aquino county of the Kingdom of Sicily (present-day Lazio region, Italy), circa January 28, 1225. Saint Thomas Aquinas (c.1225-1274) was a scholastic philosopher and Dominican whose work had an enormous influence both on the course of Christian theology and on the course of philosophy generally.
Before Aquinas' work, the dominant figure in Western philosophy was Augustine, who emphasized the principles of God's sovereignty and the importance of revelation. The translation of Aristotle's works…
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