Positive reconstruction · reader-scoped, not an inferred-absence lacuna
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 Libero Arbitrio
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Libero Arbitrio.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Augustine of Hippo.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's early account of the will and the origin of evil in the Sentences commentary is grounded in Augustine's De Libero Arbitrio.