Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Copyright page
- For our teachers
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- A Select List of Aquinas’s Works
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- 1 Thomas Aquinas
- Part II Metaphysics and the Ultimate Foundation of Reality
- Part III Epistemology
- Part IV Ethics
- Part V Philosophical Theology
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
1 - Thomas Aquinas
A Life Pursuing Wisdom
from Part I - Life and Works
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2022
Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas
- Copyright page
- For our teachers
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- A Select List of Aquinas’s Works
- Introduction
- Part I Life and Works
- 1 Thomas Aquinas
- Part II Metaphysics and the Ultimate Foundation of Reality
- Part III Epistemology
- Part IV Ethics
- Part V Philosophical Theology
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
Summary
Thomas Aquinas was born to an aristocratic family in Roccasecca, near Naples, probably in 1226.1 At an early age, he was sent to be schooled by the Benedictine monks at the famous abbey of Monte Cassino.2 It seems that his family planned that he would one day become its abbot – a fitting position of honor and prestige for the youngest son of Italian nobility.3
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- The New Cambridge Companion to Aquinas , pp. 7 - 28Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022