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 Human nature and the soul
How Thomas Aquinas's reading engaged the concept of Human nature and the soul.
This page traces how Thomas Aquinas's reading connects to the shared concept Human nature and the soul.
Evidence ledger
- Absorbed (confidence 0.80): Aquinas's hylomorphic account of the human soul as the substantial form of the body in the Summa follows Aristotle's De Anima closely; Aquinas also authored a full commentary on this text. (from De Anima)
- Refuted (confidence 0.80): Aquinas explicitly refutes Averroes's unicity-of-the-intellect thesis from the Long Commentary on De Anima, most famously in his separate treatise De Unitate Intellectus contra Averroistas, and again in the Summa's treatise on the soul. (from Long Commentary on De Anima)
- Absorbed (confidence 0.60): Aquinas's early faculty psychology in the Sentences commentary draws on Avicenna's De Anima, particularly its account of the internal senses. (from De Anima (Liber Sextus Naturalium))
- Absorbed (confidence 0.86): Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-23173-329-378): Pseudo-Dionysius + work cue 'div. nom' resolves to corpus work pseudo-dionysius-the-areopagite-de-divinis-nominibus; explicit locator present; mediated per translation channel; cited in an objection (scholastic harmonization expected, not contest)
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