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Thomas Aquinas

1225 - 1274

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Thomas Aquinas ( ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. A Doctor of the Church, he was from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily. Thomas was a proponent of natural theology and the father of a school of thought (encompassing both theology and philosophy) known as Thomism. Central to his thought was the doctrine of natural law, which he argued was accessible to human reason and grounded in the very nature of human beings, providing a basis for understanding individual rights and moral duties. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Thomas Aquinas is the 19th most popular philosopher (down from 17th in 2019), the 17th most popular biography from Italy (down from 15th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Italian Philosopher.

Thomas Aquinas is most famous for his work in the 13th century on the relationship between faith and reason.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas Aquinas ranks 19 out of 1,267. Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli, Augustine of Hippo, Francis Bacon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thales of Miletus, and Heraclitus. After him are Diogenes, Erasmus, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, John Locke, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Montesquieu.

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Among people born in 1225, Thomas Aquinas ranks 1. After him are Pope Innocent V, Nicola Pisano, Gertrude of Hohenberg, Isabelle of France, David VI of Georgia, John XI of Constantinople, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Bolesław the Pious, Sanchia of Provence, Konrad von Würzburg, and Władysław Opolski. Among people deceased in 1274, Thomas Aquinas ranks 1. After him are Bonaventure, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Robert de Sorbon, Henry I of Navarre, Wonjong of Goryeo, Emperor Duzong, Prince Munetaka, and Lal Shahbaz Qalandar.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Thomas Aquinas ranks 17 out of 5,161. Before him are Raphael (1483), Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Pope John Paul I (1912), Commodus (161), Fibonacci (1170), and Giuseppe Verdi (1813). After him are Giordano Bruno (1548), Pope Leo XIII (1810), Benito Mussolini (1883), Cicero (-106), Virgil (-70), and Pope Paul VI (1897).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Italy

Among philosophers born in Italy, Thomas Aquinas ranks 2. Before him are Niccolò Machiavelli (1469). After him are Maria Montessori (1870), Parmenides (-501), Lucretius (-94), Empedocles (-490), Zeno of Elea (-490), Antonio Gramsci (1891), Pliny the Elder (23), Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463), Boethius (480), and Bonaventure (1221).

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