St. Thomas Aquinas Research Paper

Democritus was considered to be one of the Pre-Socratic natural philosophers and theorized with the materialists and the pluralists. He came up with the atomic theory, which is used as the foundation of all creation. He believes that the world is made up an infinite number of indivisible atoms that combine and collide with each other creating many different structures. He suggests that atoms are all different shapes and sizes in influence the senses of the human body. Finally, Democritus states that the soul is made up of materialistic atoms and he denies the possibility of an immortal soul. To this day, his contribution of the atomic theory is the foundation of the chemical breakdown of humans, animals and every substance on earth. St. Thomas Aquinas was a prominent philosopher in the medieval era as well as a catholic priest. He was greatly influenced by Aristotle’s theories on “physical objects, his view of place, time and motion, his proof of the prime mover, and his cosmology”. Aquinas was born early in 1225 in Roccasecca, Italy and died on March 7, 1274. Aquinas’ most significant theories come from the merging of theology (faith) and philosophy (reason) in attempting to prove the existence of God. He believed in five explanations of God’s existence: 1) “Immoveable Motor”, which describes considering the changes in the world

Thomas Aquinas believed that God is not made of matter or atoms, but He is an immortal being. He stated that God was the “unmoved mover” who controls the movement with His thinking and willing. Therefore God is the one that created everything including himself as a perfect divine being. His notion of God was that He was the underlying cause of all existence. Aquinas supposed that God knows all considering he created the universe. He believed that God passes good to everything that exists because of His eternal love for all. This is known as the “fundamental relation of God to the