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A theologian Jiang describes as trying to revise Augustine by combining faith with Aristotelian reason and science.
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Thomas Aquinas
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...is that Dante will meet two individuals. The first individual is Thomas Aquinas, who is only 2nd Augustine. So Thomas Aquinas is the second..."
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He presents Thomas Aquinas as the second most famous Catholic theologian after Augustine and as the first European figure to reconcile classical Greek philosophy with Christian faith, though similar synthesis was already happening in the Islamic Golden Age.
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Jiang says the paradox of the canto is that Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican, praises the Franciscans and criticizes his own order, while Bonaventure will later do the reverse for the Dominicans and Franciscans.
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Thomas Aquinas tries to update Catholic thought by combining Augustine's Platonic world with Aristotelian science, logic, and reason, but Jiang says Augustine's cultural grip is too deep for this to succeed.
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"...is that Dante will meet two individuals. The first individual is Thomas Aquinas, who is only 2nd Augustine. So Thomas Aquinas is the second..."
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"radiant more pure begin so he of course is thomas aquinas all right who will explain um the franciscan order okay so this is..."
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"...most famous professors of theology at the University of Paris is Thomas Aquinas. Now, Thomas Aquinas, he's a saint in the Catholic Church. His..."
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"Okay? He's in the air. You breathe. That's the power of culture. The man who will ultimately free Europe from the grasp of Augustine..."
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"...recommendation where this guy wrote that he was the reincarnation of Thomas Aquinas. And it made the Catholic Church really, really afraid because they..."
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"so we skip the so we skip the head but thomas aquinas already is having a conversation with dante and they found them well..."
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"...to mention is that um the reason so for um St Thomas Aquinas the reason why he thinks that the Dominican order became corrupt..."
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"...not okay but probably not because we know that same as Thomas Aquinas tried it didn't work the Franciscans tried it didn't work the..."
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"...Okay. And so, what happens is that a new theologian named Thomas Aquinas comes and his orthodoxy starts to replace that of Augustine. and..."
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