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* Thomas Aquinas: Aquinas was the student of Albert the Great, a brilliant Dominican experimentalist, much like the Franciscan, Roger Bacon, of Oxford in the 13th century.

Aquinas synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Christianity.

He believed that there was no contradiction between faith and secular reason, but that they complemented each other epistemically.

He thought Aristotle had achieved the pinnacle of human striving for truth apart from divine revelation and thus adopted Aristotle's philosophy as a framework in constructing his theological and philosophical outlook.

Thomas Aquinas was a professor at the prestigious University of Paris, a contemporary of Bonaventure, a Franciscan Professor at the University of Paris whose approach differed significantly from Aquinas ' in favor of the more traditional Augustinian Platonism.

Widely-accepted as one of the most influential figures in the history of philosophy, his philosophy is the foundation for Thomism.

His most famous work is Summa Theologica