World Thinkers Translation Series -- Aquinas

Author: (USA) Ingridis Liu Zhongmin
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Publish Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This book introduces the purpose of Aquinas's series of major contributions to readers. This pamphlet primarily focuses on Aquinas's main work, Summa Theologica. In this monograph, Aquinas explores the issue of life through dialogues with writers of his time. Therefore, understanding Aquinas's dialogue partners, including the renowned figures such as Averroes, Maimonides, and Albert the Great, as well as the influential works of that era that are little-known today, is introduced through eight independent focal questions, highlighting the relationship between Aquinas and his contemporaries and their related issues. Through this approach, in order to demonstrate Aquinas's intellectual contributions, we strive to interpret Aquinas from the historical context in which he lived. Interpreting a thinker who lived in a world vastly different from today's requires confronting unfamiliar yet well-considered perspectives, as well as the underlying assumptions that form the foundation of our lives.