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Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas

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Dominican theologian whose Summa, contra Gentiles, and disputed questions survive in later Leonine, English Dominican, and digital corpora, and whose name was locked into Catholic schools by Aeterni Patris. The most recent verified record is “The Malleus Maleficarum prints scholastic demonology that cites Thomist headings” (1 January 1487), linked to the driver Judicial Independence.

Scholastic natural law that treats reason as publicly arguableheresy and unbelief as civic crimes after admonitionpapal-Thomist lock-in of Catholic classrooms as the price of a common doctor

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The dossier is not a stained-glass saint and not a cartoon inquisitor. The heaviest documented costs in public English are the heresy-death article, unbelief disabilities, servitude and sex hierarchy, just-war licence, and later papal lock-in of classrooms. The offsets are real and mostly editorial and moral-theoretic: Leonine and digital access, natural-law publicity, just price, alms, and late encyclicals that talk to modern philosophy.

He did not file 1879 or 1998. Printers and popes did that work. Confidence is high on those acts and on the English q.11 text, medium on witch-handbook share, low on canonization miracles as clinical events.

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Accountability & contradictions

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  • 5 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1323–2023).

Causal path

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  1. PersonThomas Aquinas
  2. FactFrancis’s 2023 letter marks the 700th anniversary of the 1323 canonization in public Vatican text
  3. DriverSocial Cohesion
  1. PersonThomas Aquinas
  2. FactCorpus Thomisticum puts the Latin opera and indices on a public digital site
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access
  1. PersonThomas Aquinas
  2. FactThe Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry on Aquinas
  3. DriverDigital Learning Access

Timeline

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  1. 30 June 2023 · Social Cohesion

    Francis’s 2023 letter marks the 700th anniversary of the 1323 canonization in public Vatican text

  2. 1 January 2000 · Digital Learning Access

    Corpus Thomisticum puts the Latin opera and indices on a public digital site

  3. 1 January 1999 · Digital Learning Access

    The Stanford Encyclopedia publishes a citable public entry on Aquinas

  4. 14 September 1998 · Digital Learning Access

    Fides et Ratio cites Aquinas as a model of faith-reason dialogue without repeating 1914 theses

  5. 1 January 1997 · Digital Learning Access

    New Advent places the English Summa on a stable public HTML site

  6. 1 January 1920 · Humanitarian Access

    English Summa almsgiving questions print surplus as due to those in urgent need

Evidence & methodology

How the record is sourced and how the score is derived.

32 of 32 linked facts verified, drawing on 16 distinct sources (1323–2023).

Sources include Holy See / vatican.va, Corpus Thomisticum / Fundación Tomás de Aquino, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, New Advent / Kevin Knight, Ordo Praedicatorum, New Advent, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Internet Archive / Benziger.

Sources (showing 8 of 16)

  1. 1.New Advent — Summa Theologiae (English Dominican Fathers)New Advent / Kevin Knight
  2. 2.Leo XIII, Aeterni Patris (4 August 1879)Holy See / vatican.va
  3. 3.Francis, letter on the 700th anniversary of Aquinas’s canonization (30 June 2023)Holy See / vatican.va
  4. 4.Corpus ThomisticumCorpus Thomisticum / Fundación Tomás de Aquino
  5. 5.Summa Theologiae I-II q.94 — Natural lawNew Advent
  6. 6.Summa Theologiae II-II q.40 — WarNew Advent
  7. 7.Summa Theologiae II-II q.11 — HeresyNew Advent
  8. 8.Catholic Encyclopedia — St. Thomas AquinasNew Advent

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 16

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Thomas Aquinas is a source limit. The richest Latin is medieval and school-made; the richest dates a modern catalog can store without inventing a thirteenth-century timestamp are later: translations, papal encyclicals, a critical-edition commission, HTML, a witch-handbook that cited the school, an anniversary letter. Treating the Summa as a tape of 1271 is naive. Treating Thomism as only later abuse is evasive.

The harms that survive in dated public English are not rumours. II-II q.11 a.3, as the English Dominicans printed it, delivers the relapsed heretic to death. Q.10 organises unbelief and Jewish civic disability. Sex-hierarchy and servitude headings are in the same opera. Just-war articles licence public killing. The Malleus used scholastic demonology in 1487 type. Aeterni Patris and the 1914 theses and Pascendi turned a master into a police method for classrooms. The 1917 Code filed inner-forum cases in a scholastic grid.

The offsets are also dated. The English Summa and New Advent and Corpus Thomisticum and the Leonine factory made texts checkable. Just price and due-alms name claims against extraction and surplus. Contra Gentiles and Aristotle-in-theology open an argument across a religious border. Fides et Ratio is not 1914. De regno says a king is for the common good.

What the score must not say: that Aquinas signed a 1487 witch-manual; that 1879 lock-in is a 1271 lecture; that natural law is the UDHR; that q.11 is only ‘of its time’ and therefore not a Fact; that digital HTML washes the heresy article. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on 1487–2023 printings and papal acts, medium on later coefficients from q.11 to any one pyre, low on miracle-healings as medicine.

1920 English is not 1271. 1879 is a pope. 1487 is a handbook. 1998 is another pope. Off-family indicator padding is refused. Related people are teachers, interlocutors, a poet, a reformer, and popes. They will be created as identities where missing.

The useful question is not whether Thomas is the Common Doctor. It is which dated later instruments still move rights, classrooms, war, and alms, and how much of that movement can be attributed to a Dominican name without invention. Dated later instruments, not a recovered Paris diary, remain the public record. Shared work remains named. Shared work with named collaborators, later editors, and institutions remains named. Day-precision is not invented where the named records are year-level. 1920-01-01 (cost, driver protection-of-minority-rights): English Dominican Summa prints II-II q.11 that relapsed heretics may be put to death — Summa Theologiae II-II q.11 — Heresy (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3011.htm (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aquinas (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (cost, driver protection-of-minority-rights): English Dominican Summa prints II-II q.10 on unbelief, Jewish servitude, and compulsion — Summa Theologiae II-II q.10 — Unbelief (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3010.htm (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (cost, driver protection-of-minority-rights): English Dominican Summa prints I q.92 on woman as produced from man and as helper — New Advent — Summa Theologiae (English Dominican Fathers) (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/ (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aquinas (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (cost, driver humanitarian-access): English Dominican Summa prints II-II q.40 on just war as a licensed killing — Summa Theologiae II-II q.40 — War (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3040.htm (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (cost, driver political-polarization): Standard scholarly accounts print Tempier’s 1277 Paris articles touching Thomist theses — Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aquinas (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ (opens in a new tab)). 1907-09-08 (cost, driver political-polarization): Pius X’s Pascendi uses scholastic-Thomist orthodoxy against modernist historical method — Catholic Encyclopedia — St. Thomas Aquinas (https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aquinas (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (cost, driver income-inequality): English Dominican Summa prints natural-law articles that accommodate servitude — Summa Theologiae I-II q.94 — Natural law (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2094.htm (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (cost, driver institutional-corruption): English Summa heresy articles become a public heading for later inquisitorial procedure — Summa Theologiae II-II q.11 — Heresy (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3011.htm (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)). 1879-08-04 (cost, driver political-polarization): Aeterni Patris and later study-norms sideline non-Thomist Catholic philosophies — Leo XIII, Aeterni Patris (4 August 1879) (https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_04081879_aeterni-patris.html (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aquinas (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ (opens in a new tab)). 1917-05-27 (cost, driver personal-data-protection): The 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici prints a Thomist-scholastic moral grid for internal forum files — Code of Canon Law (Holy See index) (https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/cic_index_en.html (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (cost, driver income-inequality): English Summa prints usury bans with openings later used by powerful lenders’ lawyers — New Advent — Summa Theologiae (English Dominican Fathers) (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/ (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aquinas (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (cost, driver humanitarian-access): English Summa war articles are taught as a heading that can bless public religious war — Summa Theologiae II-II q.40 — War (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/3040.htm (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)). 1323-07-18 (cost, driver infectious-disease-transmission): Later Vatican narration of the 1323 canonization prints miracle-healings as proof — Francis, letter on the 700th anniversary of Aquinas’s canonization (30 June 2023) (https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2023/documents/20230630-lettera-card-semeraro.html (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)). Thomas Aquinas (https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14663b.htm (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aquinas (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (offset, driver democratic-resilience): English Dominican Summa prints I-II q.94 on natural law as publicly arguable — Summa Theologiae I-II q.94 — Natural law (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/2094.htm (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aquinas (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (offset, driver social-cohesion): English and Latin public editions print the Summa contra Gentiles as argument toward non-Christians — New Advent — Summa Theologiae (English Dominican Fathers) (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/ (opens in a new tab)); Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Aquinas (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aquinas/ (opens in a new tab)). 1920-01-01 (offset, driver income-inequality): English Summa prints just-price and theft questions as limits on market extraction — New Advent — Summa Theologiae (English Dominican Fathers) (https://www.newadvent.org/summa/ (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)). 2023-06-30 (offset, driver social-cohesion): Francis’s 2023 letter marks the 700th anniversary of the 1323 canonization in public Vatican text — Francis, letter on the 700th anniversary of Aquinas’s canonization (30 June 2023) (https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2023/documents/20230630-lettera-card-semeraro.html (opens in a new tab)); Britannica — Saint Thomas Aquinas (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Thomas-Aquinas (opens in a new tab)).

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