PHIL 3060 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Unmoved Mover, Summa Contra Gentiles, Summa Theologica
19 Apr 2016
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Five ways, treatise on happiness, treatise on law, summa theologica (manual for theological students), summa contra gentiles (defence of the truth against heretics) Medieval catholic theologian, perhaps the best known most famous of the dominicans, Franciscans also existed at the time (e. g. william of ockham), which are powerhouses in the history of thought. Born 1224, dies 1274 13th century, living in a time when the works of aristotle are flooding. Scholars at the time sought to reconcile aristotle and islamic commentary with christian: this rise of aristotle again in the west took place during a time of the rise of into the west theology universities. Aristotelean, theologian who most successfully harmonized aristotle with christianity. Absolute being angels humans ; hierarchy to the universe which works in terms of actuality/being, from most (at top) to least. God exists : a self-evident proposition is one whose predicate is included in the essence of the, e. g.
