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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 Fons Vitae

Thomas Aquinas's attested relationship to Fons Vitae.

Thomas Aquinas is attested as having read this work by Solomon ibn Gabirol (Avicebron).

Evidence ledger

  • Aquinas explicitly rejects Avicebron's Fons Vitae thesis of universal hylomorphism (matter-form composition even in spiritual substances), engaged already in his early works via Dominicus Gundissalinus's Latin translation.