Aquinas wants to ensure that Aristotle's works of science are ok for Aquinas' contemporaries to build on, so he needs to find out what Aristotle think about God. Aristotle, of course, didn't believe in the God of the Judeo-Christian tradition ? he was a Greek polytheist. Fortunately, though, Aristotle reasoned that there needed to have been some force to set the world in motion, so he posited a First Cause...
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Aquinas 1500 years later leaps on that to make Aristotle ok. Dante Alighieri Between the years of 1308 and 1321, Dante wrote the epic poem, "The Divine Comedy," which described a journey through the afterlife. It takes place during the three days of Good Friday, when Jesus died, and on Easter Sunday when he rose body and soul to heaven...
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Dante Alighieri Failing to pay the fines, it was decided that he would be put to death if he ever returned. During his exile, Dante Alighieri spent time in Verona and other northern Italian cities as well as Paris...	3 / 788
Dante Alighieri His work has been translated into 25 languages and still holds very popular and respected.	1 / 280
Dante's Life Story As a member of the Guelph political party, Dante was sent often on missions to arrange peace between the two warring parties. While on a mission to Rome to arrange a truce between the two parties, charges were made against Dante: He was charged with conspiracy against the peace of the city, and hostility against the pope...	3 / 576
Dante Alighieri 2 His writings have been hailed “the pillars on which the European literary tradition has been built” (Dante: The Divine… Internet). The Divine Comedy is very influential and is considered as the greatest piece of poetry in early European literature...	4 / 884