Research Paper On Thomas Aquinas

During the middle ages philosophy began to expand with the creation and use of the scholastic method that had not been seen since the ancient Greeks. Scholasticism was a medieval form of learning that combined login, metaphysics and semantics to bring together classical philosophy and Christian theology. Thomas Aquinas was a user of the scholastic method at its height and is best known as the author of the work "Summa Theologica". His work demonstrates the scholastic method by Aquinas' understanding of philosophy and theology, using analysis and logic to make his argument, and posing that argument in the scholastic method form of questions then summaries. For any user of the scholastic method the first step would be to thoroughly read and understand a renowned work. For Aquinas that work was the Christian holy text, the Bible. Along with reading the chosen work, another element of the
Aquinas starts of his third article with the statement "It seems that God does not exist, for if one of two contrary things were infinite, its opposite would be completely destroyed. By "God," however, we mean some infinite good. Therefore, if God existed evil would not. Evil does exist in the world, however. Therefore God does not exist." (Aquinas 7) and gives this answer at the end "To the first argument, therefore, it must be said that, as Augustine remarks, 'since God is the supreme good he would permit no evil in his works unless he were so omnipotent and good that he could produce good even out of evil.'"Aquinas uses this quote from Augustine to showcase his use of logic and analysis to bring philosophy and theology together. The logic is that God is defined as the ultimate good. If God exists then evil cannot. Since evil does exist then God does not. Aquinas' analysis of Augustine's quote is that evil exists so can god. God is so good that he can produce good out of