Did Aristotle know that he’d have students far in the future? Thomas Aquinas (1224/5 - 1323) was one of them. He wrote Summa Theologica, which would take a good reader 51 hours to finish. There are three parts, and the second is divided into two parts, with 512 Questions, 2,669 Articles, and about 10,000 objections and replies. Overall, this monumental accomplishment contains about 1.8 million words, nowadays nearly 6,000 pages of Latin.
I tried to come up with a figure for the number of words I’ve written. My best guess is 200,000 words in 1) publishing (tax law headnotes, semi-journalistic stories, and editorial); 2) seven news and feature stories for a daily; 3) novel, short stories, and true stories; and 4) blog/diary. In addition, as a patrol officer, I wrote hundreds of reports, not published! Nevertheless, all of it is a puny amount compared to Thomas.
His branch of philosophy is called Thomistic. Before Aquinas died at age 49, he wrote numerous other treatises. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle lived in Athens for most of their lives. Socrates taught Plato, who taught Aristotle, who left a body of work for Aquinas.
All of history is present to God the Father, and it matters.
For more about Aquinas, see https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas/Years-at-the-papal-Curia-and-return-to-Paris
I tried to come up with a figure for the number of words I’ve written. My best guess is 200,000 words in 1) publishing (tax law headnotes, semi-journalistic stories, and editorial); 2) seven news and feature stories for a daily; 3) novel, short stories, and true stories; and 4) blog/diary. In addition, as a patrol officer, I wrote hundreds of reports, not published! Nevertheless, all of it is a puny amount compared to Thomas.
His branch of philosophy is called Thomistic. Before Aquinas died at age 49, he wrote numerous other treatises. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle lived in Athens for most of their lives. Socrates taught Plato, who taught Aristotle, who left a body of work for Aquinas.
All of history is present to God the Father, and it matters.
For more about Aquinas, see https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas/Years-at-the-papal-Curia-and-return-to-Paris
Aquinas by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo / Amulay, Wikimedia Commons CCO
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