Is the concept of St. Thomas Aquinas not ideal?

As the foundational element of Thomas' social thought is the concept of the common good, and as this concept so rarely receives adequate definition today, this ... read more

Aquinas follows Aristotle in concluding that Plato’s theory is deficient, in part because it is unable to account for the origin of existence and in part because it is unacceptably dismissive of existence. read more

St. Thomas Aquinas was a 13 th Century Italian Priest, theologian and philosopher, whose writing shaped the basis for modern Catholic thought. St. Aquinas was the most important philosopher of the medieval period, with influence on epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and political philosophy well into the modern period of history. read more