St. Thomas Aguinas
St. Thomas Aguinas was a famous philosopher and theologian. Aquinas stutdies Aristotles work which led him to the starting point to his own philosophy. St. Thomas secretly joined the Dominican monks which his family thought was betraying him so they held him captive in the care for about a year before letting him go. After he was released he went back to the Dominican order. After all these years of studying in schools, he finally earned his doctorate in theology. Even thought he was an exemplary scholar, he led his friends to believe he was dim-witted. After studying Aquinas traveled; writing, teaching, public speaking and preaching. Averroes theory said that the two types of knowledge were complete opposites of each other. Aquinas theory every knowledge comes from god. Revelation could guide reason and keep keep us form making mistakes. 'He believed that the existence of God could be proved in five ways, mainly by: 1) observing movement in the world as proof of God, the “Immovable Motor”; 2) observing cause and effect and identifying God as the cause of everything; 3) concluding that the impermanent nature of beings proves the existence of a necessary being, God, who originates only from within himself; 4) noticing varying levels of human perfection and determining that a supreme, perfect being must therefore exist; and 5) knowing that natural beings could not have intelligence without it being granted to them it by God." St. Thomas Aguinas defended God and his image. Aquinas believed that some of the laws made were against human nature and believed that humans had the right to deciede right from wrong. Aguinas went on to write 60 known works. "“The Universal Teacher” died at the monastery of Fossanova on March 7, 1274, and was later canonized by Pope John XXII in 1323." St. Thomas Aquinas was important becuase he was one of the most famous philosophists and theologists in the world.