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Compare And Contrast St. Thomas Aquinas

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St. Thomas Aquinas was a philosopher that believed he was bounden to save people and not destroy them. However, his father tried to persuade him to become a lawyer, which of course he didn’t want to be. St.Thomas Aquinas was one that believed in the Natural Law Theory. This helped him create the eight essential features in what living things exhibit. St.Thomas is one that believes one's soul makes a person. There are civil laws that help him explain what a natural law is. All of this leads back to the main question which is, “How do we determine if something is moral, right or just?”

St. Thomas’s starting point for ethics began with Aristotle. He attended Plato's Academy and structured his ideology from him. Thomas admired Plato but preferred Aristotle's word. Even though they didn’t have his exact words they asserted his learnings from the books he wrote. The reason why St. Thomas didn’t follow Plato's words and ideas was because he found problems in Plato's philosophy. He had a difficult time trying to prevail with this social contract theory. The social contract theory exhibits only moral obligation, it is a signed/ unsigned contract that isn’t written out and physically signed however it is structured on the concept of what is expected for you to do. Plato confides his thoughts to how human beings exist in society. St. Thomas is similar in indicating these ideas, he wants to show how human beings exist based on their natural environment. This method is also

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