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 Guide for the Perplexed
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Guide for the Perplexed.
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Moses Maimonides.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas engages Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed, known in the Latin West as the Dux Neutrorum, on divine names and negative theology, agreeing on divine simplicity while contesting strict equivocity of divine predication.