Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas, Ed., with an Introd. by Anton C. Pegis Summary
Thomas Aquinas

Introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas, Ed., with an Introd. by Anton C. Pegis Summary

Aquinas is one of the great theological philosophers. Here, through the power of translation, are the basic tenets of his philosophical thought. Unlike his philosophical comrade Augustine, whose Grecian predecessor was the pagan philosopher Plato, Aquinas is the spiritual descendant of the pagan philosopher Aristotle. Plato and Aristotle's lives overlapped in time; they did not entirely agree but their combination is rather akin to seeing the sun and the moon in...

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