What is Aquinas and Plato about?

Question

I have aq big exam Thursday and I really need help. Feel free to e-mail me. I already have all that sparknotes offers too.

The Law of Treaties
The Trial and Death of Socrates

I have read the book, the teachers notes, and attended stuy groups I just dont get this philosophy stuff

Answer 1

thomas aquinas came up with the cause and effect proof of god.
the idea is that every action was caused by another action.
because of this the first action could not have been caused.
a chain reaction must begin somewhere.
the ultimate cause of cause and effect is god, who was not caused.
that's the general idea.

Answer 2

Thomas Aquinas
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Medieval Philosophy
Depiction of St. Thomas Aquinas from The Demidoff Altarpiece by Carlo Crivelli
Name: Thomas Aquinas
Birth: c.1225 (Castle of Roccasecca, near Aquino, Italy)
Death: 7 March 1274 (Fossanova Abbey, Lazio, Italy)
School/tradition: Scholasticism, Founder of Thomism
Main interests: Metaphysics (incl. Theology), Logic, Mind, Epistemology, Ethics, Politics
Notable ideas: Five Proofs for God's Existence, Principle of double effect
Influences: Aristotle, Boethius, Eriugena, Anselm, ibn Rushd, ben Maimom, St. Augustine
Influenced: Giles of Rome, Godfrey of Fontaines, Jacques Maritain, G. E. M. Anscombe, Ayn Rand, Dante

Saint Thomas Aquinas [Thomas of Aquin, or Aquino] (c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Catholic philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition, known as Doctor Angelicus, Doctor Universalis. He is the most famous classical proponent of natural theology. He gave birth to the Thomistic school of philosophy, which was long the primary philosophical approach of the Catholic Church. He is considered by the Catholic Church to be its greatest theologian and one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Church and there have been many institutions of learning named after him.



Plato
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Plato
Name: Plato
Birth: c.427–428 BC
Death: 347 BC
School/tradition: Platonism
Main interests: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, Education, Philosophy of mathematics
Notable ideas: Platonic realism
Influences: Socrates, Archytas, Democritus, Parmenides, Pythagoras

For other uses, see Plato (disambiguation).

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "wide, broad-shouldered") (c. 427–c. 347 BC), whose real name is believed to be Aristocles, was an immensely influential ancient Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens where Aristotle studied.

Plato lectured extensively at the Academy, and wrote on many philosophical issues, dealing especially in politics, ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The most important writings of Plato are his dialogues, although some letters have come down to us under his name. It is believed that all of Plato's authentic dialogues survive. However, some dialogues ascribed to Plato by the Greeks are now considered by the consensus of scholars to be either suspect (e.g., First Alcibiades, Clitophon) or probably spurious (such as Demodocus, or the Second Alcibiades). The letters are all considered to probably be spurious, with the possible exception of the Seventh Letter.

Socrates is often a character in Plato's dialogues. How much of the content and argument of any given dialogue is Socrates' point of view, and how much of it is Plato's, is heavily disputed, since Socrates himself did not write anything; this is often referred to as the "Socratic problem". However, Plato was doubtless strongly influenced by Socrates' teachings, so many of the ideas presented, at least in his early works, were probably borrowings or adaptations.



I suggest you do a search on Plato, Aquinas and Socrates for more information.
And the next time you have a "big" test you shouldn't wait until the last moment to do your research.

Answer 3

how do you not know the story you have a big exam on?

why dint you read it?

go buy the book and read it.