Thomas d'Aquin

Faith and reason cannot contradict each other.

Thomism (Scholasticism) · Aristotelianism1225 – 1274 ItalyTheologianChristian AristotelianNatural law thinkerDominican friar

Inspirations

Aristote "the Philosopher", on whom he commented

Augustin Christian theology

Avicenne essence and existence

Averroès against the single intellect

Albert le Grandhis teacher

Heirs

Dantethe Divine Comedy

Guillaume d'Ockhamagainst scholastic metaphysics

critic

Francisco Suáreznatural law and law

Kant against the cosmological proof

Jacques MaritainNeo-Thomism and human rights

Alasdair MacIntyrethe return of virtue ethics

how it is computed

Closest

G. K. Chesterton Before clearing away a fence whose use you cannot see, find out why it was put there.

Francisco de Vitoria The peoples of America were the true owners of their lands: neither sin, nor unbelief, nor a supposed lack of reason takes that right from them.

Boèce God sees everything in an eternal present: knowing what we will do does not force us to do it.

Hugo Grotius Dutch jurist and thinker who grounds natural law in the sociable, rational nature of man, valid even without appeal to God.

Furthest

Richard Rorty Talk of sensations might one day disappear, replaced by the language of neuroscience.

John Leslie Mackie Evil makes belief in a God both all-powerful and wholly good incoherent.