Thomas Aquinas
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Thomas Aquinas Net Worth

. Thomas Aquinas was a renowned Italian Dominican theologian, philosopher, and jurist born in Roccasecca, Italy. He is widely regarded as the father of the Thomistic school of theology and is credited with combining the theological principles of faith with the philosophical principles of reason. He was born into a large family of lower nobility and was inspired by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. He earned his doctorate in theology and devoted much of his life to traveling, writing, teaching, public speaking, and preaching. He wrote several commentaries on the Bible and discussions of Aristotle's writings on natural philosophy, and was considered an authority of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Philosophers, Theologian
Birth Place Roccasecca, Italian
Died On 7 March 1274 (aged 48–49)\nFossanova, Papal States
Birth Sign Aquarius
Venerated in Catholic Church Anglican Communion Lutheranism
Canonized 18 July 1323, Avignon, Papal States by Pope John XXII
Major shrine Church of the Jacobins, Toulouse, France
Feast 28 January (7 March, until 1969)
Attributes The Summa theologiae, a model church, the sun on the chest of a Dominican friar
Patronage Academics; against storms; against lightning; apologists; Aquino, Italy; Belcastro, Italy; book sellers; Catholic academies, schools, and universities; chastity; Falena, Italy; learning; pencil makers; philosophers; publishers; scholars; students; University of Santo Tomas; Sto. Tomas, Batangas; theologians
Education Abbey of Monte Cassino University of Naples University of Paris
Notable work Summa Theologiae Summa contra Gentiles
Era Medieval philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Scholasticism Thomism Metaphysical intellectualism Medieval realism
Main interests Metaphysics, logic, theology, mind, epistemology, ethics, politics
Notable ideas Quinque viae, analogia entis, omnipotence paradox, quiddity

💰 Net worth

Thomas Aquinas, renowned philosopher and theologian of Italian origin, is estimated to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million in the year 2024. Despite being born in the 13th century, Aquinas's influence remains highly regarded in the fields of philosophy and theology. Known for his immense contributions to the realms of Scholasticism and the synthesis of Christian doctrine with Aristotelian philosophy, Aquinas is considered one of the most prolific thinkers in history. His philosophical works such as "Summa Theologica" continue to be widely studied and appreciated. Although Aquinas lived in an era vastly different from the modern sense of wealth, his intellectual achievements have solidified his lasting legacy.

Famous Quotes:

Virtue denotes a certain perfection of a power. Now a thing's perfection is considered chiefly in regard to its end. But the end of power is act. Wherefore power is said to be perfect, according as it is determinate to its act.

Biography/Timeline

1567

Thomas's theology had begun its rise to prestige. Two centuries later, in 1567, Pope Pius V proclaimed St. Thomas Aquinas a Doctor of the Church and ranked his feast with those of the four great Latin fathers: Ambrose, Augustine of Hippo, Jerome and Gregory. At the Council of Trent, Thomas had the honor of having his Summa theologiae placed on the altar alongside the Bible and the Decretals.

1570

The first edition of Thomas's opera omnia, the so-called editio Piana (from Pius V, the Dominican Pope who commissioned it), was produced in 1570 at the studium of the Roman convent at Santa Maria sopra Minerva, the forerunner of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum.

1872

Abbé Migne published an edition of the Summa Theologiae, in four volumes, as an appendix to his Patrologiae Cursus Completus (English editions: Joseph Rickaby 1872, J. M. Ashley 1888).

1879

In his encyclical of 4 August 1879, Aeterni Patris, Pope Leo XIII stated that Thomas Aquinas's theology was a definitive exposition of Catholic doctrine. Thus, he directed the clergy to take the teachings of Thomas as the basis of their theological positions. Leo XIII also decreed that all Catholic seminaries and universities must teach Thomas's doctrines, and where Thomas did not speak on a topic, the teachers were "urged to teach conclusions that were reconcilable with his thinking." In 1880, Saint Thomas Aquinas was declared patron of all Catholic educational establishments.

1882

The critical edition of Thomas's works is the ongoing edition commissioned by Pope Leo XIII (1882–1903), the so-called Leonine Edition. Most of his major works have now been edited, the Summa Theologiae in nine volumes during 1888–1906, the Summa Contra Gentiles in three volumes during 1918–1930.

1898

Thomas's aesthetic theories, especially the concept of claritas, deeply influenced the literary practice of modernist Writer James Joyce, who used to extol Thomas as being second only to Aristotle among Western Philosophers. Joyce refers to Thomas's doctrines in Elementa philosophiae ad mentem D. Thomae Aquinatis doctoris angelici (1898) of Girolamo Maria Mancini, professor of theology at the Collegium Divi Thomae de Urbe. For Example, Mancini's Elementa is referred to in Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

1951

Henry Adams's Mont Saint Michel and Chartres ends with a culminating chapter on Thomas, in which Adams calls Thomas an "artist" and constructs an extensive analogy between the design of Thomas's "Church Intellectual" and that of the gothic cathedrals of that period. Erwin Panofsky later would echo these views in Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (1951).

1956

The influence of Thomas's aesthetics also can be found in the works of the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco, who wrote an essay on aesthetic ideas in Thomas (published in 1956 and republished in 1988 in a revised edition).

1969

When he was canonized, his feast day was inserted in the General Roman Calendar for celebration on 7 March, the day of his death. Since this date commonly falls within Lent, the 1969 revision of the calendar moved his memorial to 28 January, the date of the translation of his relics to Church of the Jacobins, Toulouse.

2008

In recent years the cognitive neuroscientist Walter Freeman proposes that Thomism is the philosophical system explaining cognition that is most compatible with neurodynamics, in a 2008 article in the journal Mind and Matter titled "Nonlinear Brain Dynamics and Intention According to Aquinas."

2009

Thomas was most probably born in the castle of Roccasecca, located in Aquino, old county of the Kingdom of Sicily (present-day Lazio region, Italy), c. 1225, According to some authors, he was born in the castle of his father, Landulf of Aquino. Though he did not belong to the most powerful branch of the family, Landulf of Aquino was a man of means. As a knight in the Service of King Roger II, he held the title miles. Thomas's mother, Theodora, belonged to the Rossi branch of the Neapolitan Caracciolo family. Landulf's brother Sinibald was abbot of the first Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino. While the rest of the family's sons pursued military careers, the family intended for Thomas to follow his uncle into the abbacy; this would have been a normal career path for a younger son of southern Italian nobility.

2013

Heresy was a capital offense against the secular law of most European countries of the 13th century, which had a limited prison capacity. Kings and emperors, even those at war with the papacy, listed heresy first among the crimes against the state. Kings claimed power from God according to the Christian faith. Often enough, especially in that age of papal claims to universal worldly power, the rulers' power was tangibly and visibly legitimated directly through coronation by the pope.

2014

A grasp of Thomas's psychology is essential for understanding his beliefs around the afterlife and resurrection. Thomas, following Church doctrine, accepts that the soul continues to exist after the death of the body. Because he accepts that the soul is the form of the body, then he also must believe that the human being, like all material things, is form-matter composite. Substantial form (the human soul) configures prime matter (the physical body) and is the form by which a material composite belongs to that species it does; in the case of human beings, that species is rational animal. So, a human being is a matter-form composite that is organized to be a rational animal. Matter cannot exist without being configured by form, but form can exist without matter—which allows for the separation of soul from body. Thomas says that the soul shares in the material and spiritual worlds, and so has some features of matter and other, immaterial, features (such as access to universals). The human soul is different from other material and spiritual things; it is created by God, but also only comes into existence in the material body.

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