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Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker Paperback / softback - 1956
by Frederick C. Copleston
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- Title Aquinas: An Introduction to the Life and Work of the Great Medieval Thinker
- Author Frederick C. Copleston
- Binding Paperback / softback
- Edition Penguin Books
- Condition New
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, London
- Date 1956-01-30
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780140136746
- ISBN 9780140136746 / 0140136746
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.61 x 5.26 x 0.67 in (19.33 x 13.36 x 1.70 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Religious Orientation: Catholic
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress subjects Thomas
- Dewey Decimal Code 230.209
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Summary
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 thoughtan achievement which led his contemporaries to regard him as an advanced thinker.
Father Copleston's lucid and stimulating book examines this extraordinary manwhose influence is perhaps greater today than in his own lifetimeand his trought, relating his ideas wherever possible to problems as they are discussed today.
First line
NOBODY would be prepared to maintain that in studying the development of political society in Europe we could profitably omit all consideration of the Middle Ages.