Thomas Aquinas
1225 – 1274 · Italy · Philosophy
Fused Aristotle with Christianity; natural-law theory still shapes law and ethics.
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Who shaped Thomas Aquinas, and who they shaped
Inherited from3
- Augustine of Hippo
354 – 430 · Philosophy, Literature
Aquinas builds on Augustine's theology while replacing its Platonism with Aristotle.
- Ibn Rushd (Averroes)
1126 – 1198 · Philosophy, Medicine
Aquinas argues throughout the Summa with 'the Commentator' on Aristotle.
- Ibn Sina (Avicenna)
980 – 1037 · Medicine, Philosophy
Avicenna's distinction between essence and existence is load-bearing in Aquinas's metaphysics.
Passed the work to1
- G. W. F. Hegel
1770 – 1831 · Philosophy
Scholastic system-building is the model Hegel secularises into dialectical logic.
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