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Thomas Aquinas

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Thomas Aquinas and The passions of the soul

How Thomas Aquinas's reading engaged the concept of The passions of the soul.

This page traces how Thomas Aquinas's reading connects to the shared concept The passions of the soul.

Evidence ledger

  • Absorbed (confidence 0.60): The Summa's treatise on the passions draws occasionally on Aristotle's Rhetoric for the analysis of emotion and persuasion. (from Rhetoric)
  • Extended (confidence 0.83): Citation-derived from Aquinas's own ingested Latin text (pattern=aquinas-citation-26170-400-495): explicit 'ut videtur per Boetium in lib. De duab. naturis et una persona Christi, aliquantulum a med.' - Boethius's Contra Eutychen cited by its full medieval title; direct

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