Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker - Softcover

Copleston, F. C.

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Synopsis

Aquinas (1224-74) lived at a time when the Christian West was opening up to a wealth of Greek and Islamic philosophical speculation. An embodiment of the thirteenth-century ideal of a unified interpretation of reality (in which philosophy and theology work together in harmony), Aquinas was remarkable for the way in which he used and developed this legacy of ancient thought—an achievement which led his contemporaries to regard him as an advanced thinker.

Father Copleston's lucid and stimulating book examines this extraordinary man—whose influence is perhaps greater today than in his own lifetime—and his trought, relating his ideas wherever possible to problems as they are discussed today.

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About the Author

Fr. Frederick Copleston (1907-1994) was the Principal of Heythrop College, University of London.

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9780140203493: Aquinas. An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker. (Pelican Books)

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ISBN 10:  0140203494 ISBN 13:  9780140203493
Publisher: Penguin Books, 1956
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