Aristotle and the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas
Abstract
This writing reviews the way in which Thomas Aquinas Christianized the foundations of Aristotle's philosophy, following the previous approaches of Avicenna and Albert the Great to make the Aristotelian universe compatible with monotheism. The formula used by Thomas Aquinas was the separation of essence and existence, as independent forms of Being, which opened the way for him to introduce the Christian God into Aristotle's natural universe, not as a artificial aggregate, as had happened with previous medieval attempts, but as a necessary and natural foundation for the entire Aristotelian system, in such a way that it did not confront the Christian dogma, and opening, incidentally, the way towards the separation of theology and philosophy.
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