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A 3 page essay that analyzes F.C. Copleston's Aquinas, An Introduction to the life and work of the Great Medieval Thinker (1955). The writer argues that Copleston offers a balanced and well-written account of Aquinas' life and his contributions to theology and philosophy. This examination of Copleston's text shows that his interpretation of Aquinas' work is enlightening and insightful, particularly in regards to Aquinas' cosmological argument on the existence of God. No additional sources cited.
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to theology and philosophy. An examination of Coplestons text shows that his interpretation of Aquinas work is enlightening and insightful, particularly in regards to Aquinas cosmological argument on the
existence of God. Born in the early thirteenth century in Italy, Thomas Aquinas is considered to be the greatest of the medieval Scholastics (or "Schoolmen") and is one of
the foremost philosophers in Western history (Copleston, 1955). As the son of a count, he was predestined for a religious life from an early age. When he was just
five years old, his father placed him in the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino (Copleston, 1955). Still in his early teens, Aquinas matriculated at the University of Naples,. In 1244,
against he wishes of his family, Aquinas entered the Dominican order. Not to be determined from having Aquinas in the Benedictine order, his family had him kidnapped. Nevertheless, by 1245,
he was studying in Paris under the tutelage of an eminent Dominican, Albert the Great (Copleston, 1955). As this brief compilation of Aquinas early life suggests, Copleston gives a concise
overview of Aquinas life and early scholastic influences. But while Copleston relates the life of Aquinas, his emphasis on the work and philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Throughout his classical
education, Aquinas was exposed to the work of the ancient Greek philosophers. Throughout his writing , Aquinas worked out a relationship between Christian belief and the forms of Greek philosophy.
Aquinas goal was to show that the universe was rational. In explaining the natural world, Aquinas followed Aristotles perception of matter. Universals, he argued, exist in specific objects in such
a manner as to make them what they are. In other words, the real thing about an object, a tree for example, is not its bark, leaves or component parts,
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