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St. Thomas ' architecture , like any other work of art , is best studied by itself as though he created it outright ; otherwise a tourist would never get beyond its threshold . Beginning with the foundation which is God and God's active ...
St. Thomas ' architecture , like any other work of art , is best studied by itself as though he created it outright ; otherwise a tourist would never get beyond its threshold . Beginning with the foundation which is God and God's active ...
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calmness ; but Thomas Aquinas was not so happily placed , between the Church and the schools . Humanity had a form common to itself , which made it what it was . By some means this form was associated with matter ; in fact , matter was ...
calmness ; but Thomas Aquinas was not so happily placed , between the Church and the schools . Humanity had a form common to itself , which made it what it was . By some means this form was associated with matter ; in fact , matter was ...
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The effort is as evident and quite as laborious in modern science , starting as it does from multiplicity , as in Thomas Aquinas , who started from unity ; and it is necessarily less successful , for its true aims , as far as it is ...
The effort is as evident and quite as laborious in modern science , starting as it does from multiplicity , as in Thomas Aquinas , who started from unity ; and it is necessarily less successful , for its true aims , as far as it is ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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