Research Paper On Thomas Aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas “Thomas Aquinas had no doubt that all knowledge was both interrelated and capable of being synthesized into a whole. Everything from science and philosophy to theology would fit into that synthesis.” Before tackling the question pertaining to whether people in this day and age would back Thomas Aquinas views, the quote stated above needs to be properly understood. Simply put, you've capsulized all there is about the universe. Science can analyze the results. Religion explains the cause and purpose. And philosophy explores this knowledge in an attempt to humanly expand meaning to man from it. According to this way of thinking, all sciences and ways of thinking combine and work together as a way to explain or answer the universes biggest questions. Thomas Aquinas was …show more content…

He studied Aristotle and was somewhat compared to Constantine as the “Christian Apostle.” At the forefront of medieval thought was the struggle between faith(theology) and reason(philosophy). People at the time did not know how to connect information they learned through revelation and what they learned through natural observation. Aquinas answer to this was that both types of knowledge were granted by God and were entirely compatible. Much of his work was centered around proving that there was a higher being and that our existence only came about because He allowed it to happen. Everything we know and learn came to be because God granted it to us, according to Aquinas. Aquinas even laid out five ways to prove that God was real. 1)The proof of motion. According to Aquinas, all things that are currently in motion were at one time not in motion, and for those things to start motion, someone had to initiate that movement. And that “First Mover” was God. 2) Proof from efficient cause. Everything has a maker. A paper was written by a student, a student was made by his

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