Examples of Thomas Aquinas in the following topics:
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- Though earlier philosophers such as Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas discussed animism, the formal definition was postulated by Sir Edward Taylor late in the 19th century.
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- Thomas Aquinas noted many centuries ago, it is impossible for government to outlaw all sins (Summa Theologica, Part II, Article IV).
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- Thomas Aquinas, who postulated the notion of two worlds existing simultaneously; the divine world of faith and the earthly world of humans.
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- This movement tried to employ a systemic approach to truth and reason and culminated in the thought of Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274), who wrote the Summa Theologica, or Summary of Theology.
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- Although there had been significant earlier attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church before Luther—such as those of Jan Hus, Geert Groote, Thomas A Kempis, Peter Waldo, and John Wycliffe—Martin Luther is widely acknowledged to have started the Reformation with his 1517 work The Ninety-Five Theses.
- New thinking favored the notion that no religious doctrine can be supported by philosophical arguments, eroding the old alliance between reason and faith of the medieval period laid out by Thomas Aquinas.
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- The most famous scholastic was Thomas Aquinas (later declared a "Doctor of the Church"), who led the move away from the Platonic and Augustinian and towards Aristotelianism.
- Thomas Bradwardine and his partners, the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, Oxford, distinguished kinematics from dynamics, emphasizing kinematics, and investigating instantaneous velocity.
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- Politically, the age is distinguished by an emphasis on liberty, democracy, republicanism, and religious tolerance—culminating in the writings of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and the drafting of the United States Declaration of Independence.
- Deism greatly influenced intellectuals and several noteworthy 18th-century Americans such as John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, and Thomas Jefferson.
- The most articulate exponent was Thomas Paine, whose The Age of Reason was written in France in the early 1790s and reached America soon thereafter.
- Thomas Paine's Common Sense, published at the outset of the American Revolution, drew heavily on the theories of Locke and is largely considered one of the most virulent attacks on political despotism.
- The culmination of these enlightenment ideas occurred with Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence, in which he declared:
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- Thomas Jefferson, though an advocate of freedom and equality, owned and fathered slaves.
- Thomas Jefferson was born into the planter class of a "slave society" in which slavery was the main means of labor production and elite slaveholders were the ruling class.
- In 1768, Thomas Jefferson began to use his slaves to construct a neoclassical mansion known as Monticello.
- Some historians have claimed that, as a Representative to the Continental Congress, Thomas Jefferson wrote an amendment or bill that would abolish slavery.
- Evaluate Thomas Jefferson’s changing views on slavery in the United States
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- Thomas McCarthy (Vol. 1).
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- Thomas Hobbes,
an English philosopher and scientist, was one of the key figures in the political debates of the Enlightenment period, who introduced a social contract theory based on the relation between the absolute sovereign and the civil society.
- Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher and scientist, was one of the key figures in the political debates of the period.
- Thomas Hobbes by John Michael Wright,
circa 1669-1670, National Portrait Gallery, London.
- Describe Thomas Hobbes' beliefs on the relationship between government and the people.