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Delve into Aquinas's Summa Theologica: A monumental synthesis of faith and reason. Explore God's existence (Five Ways), the nature of good, law, and virtue. Essential for understanding medieval thought and Christian theology.Works cited:"A Survey of Magisterial Support for St. Thomas Aquinas." Santo Tomas de Aquino, n.d., pp. 143-197.Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica. Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Christian Classics, 1981.Aquinas, Thomas. The Summa Theologiæ of St. Thomas Aquinas. Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, 2nd ed., Kevin Knight, 2017. New Advent, www.newadvent.org/summa/.Bodo, Victor. "Thomas Aquinas on Aristotle." Abyssal consciousness"Christian ethics." Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaDimmock, Mark, and Andrew Fisher. "Aquinas’s Natural Law Theory." Ethics for A-Level. Open Book Publishers, n.d. JSTOR, https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1wc7r6j.8. Emery, Gilles, O.P., and Matthew Levering, editors. Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology. Oxford University Press, 2015.Feser, Edward. Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide. Oneworld Publications, 2009.Gardner, Patrick Xavier. "The Metaphysics of Meaning: Aquinas and the Meaning of Life." New Blackfriars, vol. 105, 2024, pp. 401–415. Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/nbf.2024.6.Gilson, Etienne. Thomism: The Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Translated by Laurence K. Shook and Armand Maurer, 6th ed., Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2002.Hoffmann, Tobias, Jörn Müller, and Matthias Perkams, editors. Aquinas and the Nicomachean Ethics. Cambridge University Press, 2013.Johnson, Mark. "The Thought of Thomas Aquinas by Brian Davies, O.P. (review)." The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, vol. 58, no. 1, Jan. 1994, pp. 166–169. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/tho.1994.0055.Kiankhah, L. "The Principle of “Existence Distinction from Essential Substance”: A Comparative Study of the Views of Avicenna and Thomas Aquinas." Islamic Philosophical Doctrines, vol. 17, no. 31, Dec. 2023, pp. 145–168. doi:10.30513/ipd.2023.4880.1411.Lee, Sarah. "The Five Ways: A Philosophical Examination." Number Analytics, 26 May 2025. Lee, Sarah. "Scholasticism: A Philosophical Revolution." Number Analytics, 28 May 2025. Marenbon, John. "Medieval Philosophy." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 19 Dec. 2024. Mitchell, Philip Irving. "Key Ideas in Summa I-II. Questions 1-5 (Happiness) and 6, 8-9, 13, 18-21 (WILLING THE GOOD)." Dallas Baptist University, n.d.Pasnau, Robert, editor. The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy. Associate editor Christina Van Dyke, Cambridge University Press, 2009.Pasnau, Robert. "Thomas Aquinas." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2022. "Students of the House of Studies, Washington, D. C." "The History of the Summa Theologica." Dominicana, vol. 4, no. 4, 1920.Stump, Eleonore, and Brian Davies, editors. The Oxford Handbook of Aquinas. Oxford University Press, 2012."Summa Theologica." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, n.d. The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100–1600. "II - Aristotle in the Middle Ages." Edited by Norman Kretzmann et al., Cambridge University Press, 1982. Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/CHOL9780521226059.Trabbic, Joseph G. "How to Read an Article in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae." thomistica.net, 5 June 2012. Vieru, Simona. "ARISTOTLE'S INFLUENCE ON THE NATURAL LAW THEORY OF ST THOMAS AQUINAS." The Western Australian Jurist, vol. 1, 2010.
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