What are criticisms of Thomas Aquinas' philosophies?

During the “Christian Centuries” of the High Middle Ages, (or what is also known as the Age of Synthesis), from about 1100 to about 1300, a “period of cultural ferment erupted that one modern historian has called the 12th century renaissance.” This Era spawned some of the finest achievements of history. read more

SOURCE: "The Approach to Thomism" in St. Thomas Aquinas, Sheed & Ward, Inc., 1933, pp. 175-95. [In the following excerpt, Chesterton describes Aquinas's philosophy as difficult but founded on common sense and practical, ordinary truisms.] The fact that Thomism is the philosophy of common sense is itself a matter of common sense. read more

Alchemy was science and the essence of lead could be purified into gold. The laws of thermodynamics, oxidation and radioactive decay were 550 years or more in the future. We have learned that Aquinas’ views on science are not the ways of the Universe. Thomas simply did not have the facts. read more