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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 (Liber Sextus Naturalium)

Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to De Anima (Liber Sextus Naturalium).

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

Evidence ledger

  • Aquinas's early faculty psychology in the Sentences commentary draws on Avicenna's De Anima, particularly its account of the internal senses.

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