# Thomas Aquinas

- Id: `thomas_aquinas`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/thomas-aquinas/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `03a9c0182559497cf9bfb22e9c5229fbf182530bcf8738e98ed21a5e9c8a97da`

## Summary

A Dominican theologian and philosopher, Thomas Aquinas brings Aristotelian argument into Christian theology. He proceeds through objections, precise distinctions and replies in order to relate reason and revelation, action and virtue, nature and grace.

## Overview

Thomas Aquinas died on 7 March 1274. Later Thomism, the completed Supplementum and modern Catholic doctrine postdate him.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "c. 1225-1274",
    "era": "Middle Ages",
    "distance": "about 752–801 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 49
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "modern-philosophy",
    "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
    "detail": "Scholastic philosophy and theology",
    "labels": [
        "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "Scholastic philosophy and theology"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1274,
    "display": "1274 CE",
    "reason": "Thomas Aquinas died on 7 March 1274. Later Thomism, the completed Supplementum and modern Catholic doctrine postdate him."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 2,
    "passages": 23778,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "la"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 2
}
```

## Attested thinker encounters

```json
[
    {
        "person_id": "albert_the_great",
        "name": "Albert the Great",
        "relationship_type": "teacher",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_refs": [
            "modern.sep.aquinas"
        ]
    }
]
```

## Places

```json
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    {
        "name": "Roccasecca",
        "period": "c. 1225",
        "description": "Probable birthplace.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/aquinas/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Paris",
        "period": "1245-1259 and 1268-1272",
        "description": "Study and two teaching periods.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/aquinas/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Cologne",
        "period": "from 1248",
        "description": "Study with Albert the Great.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/aquinas/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Rome",
        "period": "1265-1268",
        "description": "Teaching and writing at the Dominican studium.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/aquinas/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Naples",
        "period": "1272-1274",
        "description": "Final teaching assignment.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/aquinas/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Fossanova",
        "period": "1274",
        "description": "Place of death on the journey toward Lyon.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2012/entries/aquinas/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Monte Cassino",
        "period": "childhood studies",
        "description": "Monastic schooling before transfer to the University of Naples.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Orvieto",
        "period": "after 1259",
        "description": "First named Italian Dominican house of study after the first Paris teaching period.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/"
    }
]
```