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 Metaphysics (Liber de Philosophia Prima)
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Metaphysics (Liber de Philosophia Prima).
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Avicenna.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas's early essence/existence distinction in the Sentences commentary engages Avicenna's Liber de Philosophia Prima, in the Toledo-school Latin translation, absorbing much of its vocabulary while disputing its emanation cosmology.