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Thomas Aquinas was born in Roccasecca, Italy where he joined the Dominican order while studying philosophy and theology at Naples. He then seeked additional studies in Paris and Koln. There he was exposed to Aristotelean thought by Albert the Great and William of Moerbeke.

Aquinas taught in Paris and Rome for the remainder of his life while writing millions of words on philosophical and theological issues. "The Angelic Doctor" developed a massive synthesis of Christianity and Aristotelian philosophy that later became the Roman Catholic theology in 1879.

"The Angelic Doctor" believed that in some circumstances genuine knowledge was led to by human reason. He believed that by being human, we naturally rely on sensory information for our knowledge of the world.

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