In Section 15 of the First Essay of the Genealogy of Morality, Thomas Aquinas talks a fair bit about Christianity. ... Nietzsche disagrees with what Thomas Aquinas says. Nietzsche is against everything that Aquinas believes in mostly because Aquinas is a Christian and Nietzsche is an atheist. ... Nietzsche disagrees with everything Thomas Aquinas says mostly when it in regards to religion and Aquainas' views on Christianity. ... When reading these passages, I definitely gravitated towards Thomas Aquinas' views and ideas, and disagreed with what Nietzsche had to say about it. ...

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What is the relation of faith, wisdom, and reason according to Aquinas? Thomas Aquinas' purpose in the Summa Contra Gentiles is to prove the existence of God as well as explain why Christianity is the only correct faith. ... Aquinas does make it very clear that faith, is as important, possibly more important then reason and wisdom "a man would be exceedingly foolish, were he to suspect of falsehood the things revealed by God through the ministry of His angels, because they cannot be the object of reason's investigations.""... Aquinas also makes it a point to explain that there ar...

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Thomas Aquinas' view of the relationship of faith and reason finds very essential in understanding God. Thomas Aquinas argues that many religious truths can be proven without faith and through reason alone. ...

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One of the greatest philosophers and theologians was Aquinas, Saint Thomas which he believed that God does exist. ... According to Thomas, he believed that all people desire happiness, but they can only satisfy this desire through direct communion with the omnipotent being. ... Thomas also taught that the sacraments were important in the communication with God's grace. Therefore Thomas combined teachings of Aristotle with the Christian Doctrine. ...

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What if one had the ability to "freeze" time? This ability may not exist directly, but many philosophers believe that time is, though not quite frozen, stationary. Other philosophers believe the opposite is true - that time is cyclical, revolving, moving. Time is the subject of an amazing philosophi...

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Major theistic religions see God as a lawgiver who creates laws for us to obey. This notion, later elaborated upon and coined the Divine Command Theory, was once pondered by the Greek philosopher Socrates. In a recorded dialogue, he posed what is considered to be one of the greatest philosophical q...

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The traditional attributes of God for the Christian religion include that Christians see God as being unseen as a person. This means that He is there even if no one has seen Him in the flesh. Also they believe He is unique. Christians believe that God cannot be compared to anybody else. They also be...

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To further support this statement, a Saint called Thomas Aquinas believes that "love" is morally right and is a reason why human beings were made therefore he would suggest that the act of abortion would be the wrong thing to do because it doesn't fit in his belief of what's morally right. ...

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