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 Liber de Causis (Book of Causes)
Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Liber de Causis (Book of Causes).
Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Proclus.
Evidence ledger
- Aquinas drew on the Neoplatonic causal-participation metaphysics of the Liber de Causis, in Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation; his own commentary on it is also where he identifies the text's true Proclean origin against its common medieval attribution to Aristotle.