Examples of Thomas Aquinas in the following topics:
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- This movement tried to employ a systemic approach to truth and reason and culminated in the thought of Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274), who wrote the Summa Theologica, or Summary of Theology.
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- Although there had been significant earlier attempts to reform the Roman Catholic Church before Luther – such as those of Jan Hus, Geert Groote, Thomas A Kempis, Peter Waldo, and John Wycliffe – Martin Luther is widely acknowledged to have started the Reformation with his 1517 work The Ninety-Five Theses.
- New thinking favored the notion that no religious doctrine can be supported by philosophical arguments, eroding the old alliance between reason and faith of the medieval period laid out by Thomas Aquinas.
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- The most famous scholastic was Thomas Aquinas (later declared a "Doctor of the Church"), who led the move away from the Platonic and Augustinian and towards Aristotelianism.
- Thomas Bradwardine and his partners, the Oxford Calculators of Merton College, Oxford, distinguished kinematics from dynamics, emphasizing kinematics, and investigating instantaneous velocity.
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- Thomas Hobbes,
an English philosopher and scientist, was one of the key figures in the political debates of the Enlightenment period, who introduced a social contract theory based on the relation between the absolute sovereign and the civil society.
- Thomas Hobbes, an English philosopher and scientist, was one of the key figures in the political debates of the period.
- Thomas Hobbes by John Michael Wright,
circa 1669-1670, National Portrait Gallery, London.
- Describe Thomas Hobbes' beliefs on the relationship between government and the people.
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- Thomas Hobbes' conception of natural rights extended from his conception of man in a "state of nature."
- Thomas Paine further elaborated on natural rights in his influential work Rights of Man (1791), emphasizing that rights cannot be granted by any charter because this would legally imply they can also be revoked and under such circumstances they would be reduced to privileges.
- Thomas Hobbes' 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later Western political philosophy.
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- Oliver Cromwell, Henry Ireton, Judge Thomas Pride, and Judge John Bradshaw were posthumously attained for high treason.
- In 1680 or 1681, he returned to England and lodged with the merchant Thomas Pengelly in Cheshunt in Hertfordshire, living off the income from his estate in Hursley.
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- This contributed to a state of hostility between his young contemporaries and the Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey.
- There were Common lawyers who resented the privileges of the clergy to summon laity to their courts; there were those who had been influenced by Lutheran evangelicalism and were hostile to the theology of Rome; Thomas Cromwell was both.
- Under the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, a more radical reformation proceeded.
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- One historian noted that The Prince was spoken of highly by Thomas Cromwell in England and had influenced Henry VIII in his turn towards Protestantism, and in his tactics, for example during the Pilgrimage of Grace.
- Benjamin Franklin, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson followed Machiavelli's republicanism when they opposed what they saw as the emerging aristocracy that they feared Alexander Hamilton was creating with the Federalist Party.
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- The key drafts were prepared by General Lafayette, working
at times with his close friend Thomas Jefferson, who drew heavily upon The Virginia Declaration
of Rights, drafted in May 1776 by George Mason (which was based in part on the
English Bill of Rights 1689), as well as Jefferson's own drafts for the
American Declaration of Independence.
- Thomas
Jefferson—the primary author of the U.S.
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- Christianity existed in the Arabian Peninsula, and was established first by the early Arab traders who heard the gospel from Peter the apostle at Jerusalem (Acts 2:11), as well as those evangelized by Paul's ministry in Arabia (Galatians 1:17) and by St Thomas.