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Thomas Aquinas

This reconstruction covers the readable fraction of Thomas Aquinas's formation -- attested reading and writing only, not the whole of a life.

Thomas Aquinas and De Anima

Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Anima.

Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Aristotle.

Evidence ledger

  • Aquinas's hylomorphic account of the human soul as the substantial form of the body in the Summa follows Aristotle's De Anima closely; Aquinas also authored a full commentary on this text.

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