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Why you should get to know Thomas Aquinas, even 800 years after he lived
But who is the turbaned figure under Aquinas’ feet, crushed by his frankly famous weight and crawling away in defeat? That would be the 12th-century Muslim philosopher Ibn Rushd, or Averroes ...
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Thomas Aquinas and the Subjective Theory of Value
Six hundred years before Carl Menger wrote his Principles, Thomas Aquinas was writing about the role of subjective valuation ...
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Philosophers justifying slavery
The Greek philosopher Plato thought similarly that ... It is a name, therefore, introduced by sin and not by nature. Aquinas largely agreed with Augustine that slavery was the result of the ...
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ Relic Carried in Procession for 750th Anniversary of His Death
On the eve of the 750th anniversary of St. Thomas Aquinas’ death ... Mariano Crociata led the procession to honor the medieval philosopher and theologian widely considered one of the greatest ...
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History of war ethics
In the Christian tradition war ethics were developed by St Augustine, and later by St Thomas Aquinas and others. Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), a Dutch philosopher and author of De Jure Belli Ac Pacis ...