Of God and His Creatures. An Annotated Translation (With Some Abridgment) of the Summa Contra Gentiles of Saint Thomas Aquinas
(Part of the Summa Contra Gentiles Series)
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The Summa contra Gentiles is an historical monument of the first importance for the history of philosophy. In the variety of its contents, it is a perfect encyclopaedia of the learning of the day. By it we can fix the high water mark of thirteenth-century thought: -- for it contains the lectures of a Doctor second to none in the greatest school of thought then flourishing, the University of Paris. It is by the study of such books that one enters into the mental life of the period at which they were written; not by the hasty perusal of Histories of Philosophy. No student of the Contra Gentiles is likely to acquiesce in the statement, that the Middle Ages were a time when mankind seemed to have lost the power of thinking for themselves. Mediaeval people thought for themselves, thoughts curiously different from ours, and profitable for us to study.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1470180812
ISBN13:9781470180812
Release Date:March 2012
Publisher:CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Length:800 Pages
Weight:3.70 lbs.
Dimensions:10.0" x 1.8" x 7.0"
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