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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 122. Chapters: Logical positivism, Post-structuralism, Postmodern philosophy, Platonic idealism, Pragmatism, Scholasticism, Posthumanism, Anthroposophy, Nyaya, Purist, Thomism, Philosophy of Soren Kierkegaard, Egoist anarchism, Advaita Vedanta, Pragmaticism, Vishishtadvaita, Cosmopolitanism, German idealism, Samkhya, Alexandrian school, Raja Yoga, Naive realism, Kyoto School, Mim s, Vaisheshika, Scotism, stika and n stika, Ionian School, Non-philosophy, Megarian school, Ethiopian philosophy, Australian realism, Kantianism, Africana philosophy, Philosophes, Cambridge Platonists, Neomodernism, Milesian school, College international de philosophie, Logicism, School of Brentano, Amistad Onus, Lwow-Warsaw school of logic, New realism, Accademia degli Infiammati, Sensualism, Eretrian school, Prout College, Philosophical Radicals, Chicago school, Neo-Cartesian. Excerpt: Thomism is the philosophical school that arose as a legacy of the work and thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church. In philosophy, his commentaries on Aristotle are his most lasting contribution. In theology, his Summa Theologica was one of the most influential documents in medieval theology and continues to be studied today in theology and philosophy classes. In the encyclical Doctoris Angelici, Pope St. Pius X cautioned that the teachings of the Church cannot be understood scientifically without the basic philosophical underpinnings of Thomas's major thesis: The Second Vatican Council described Thomas's system as the "Perennial Philosophy." St. Thomas Aquinas believed that truth is true wherever it is found, and thus consulted Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Muslim philosophers. Specifically, he was a realist (i.e., he, unlike the skeptics, believed that the world can be known as it is). He largely followed Aristotelian terminology...
