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Saint Thomas Aquinas
During the 13th century Saint Thomas Aquinas taught that Christian virtue meant conformity to God’s will. Although reason was important in attaining virtue, according to Aquinas, it was insufficient and needed to be supported by faith.
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Ethics; Middle Ages; Scholasticism; Renaissance; Philosophy, Western; Physics; Education, History of; God; Theism; Aquinas, Saint Thomas
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