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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 Long Commentary on De Anima

Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Long Commentary on De Anima.

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

Evidence ledger

  • Aquinas explicitly refutes Averroes's unicity-of-the-intellect thesis from the Long Commentary on De Anima, most famously in his separate treatise De Unitate Intellectus contra Averroistas, and again in the Summa's treatise on the soul.

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