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700th anniversary of death of Thomas von Aquin - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1974 - 40 Pfennig

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700th anniversary of death of Thomas von Aquin - Germany / Federal Republic of Germany 1974 - 40 Pfennig


Theme: Calender
CountryGermany / Federal Republic of Germany
Issue Date1974
Face Value40.00 
Colorred white
PerforationK 14
Printing Type2-color offset printing
Stamp TypePostage stamp
Item TypeStamp
Chronological Issue Number684
Chronological ChapterGER-BRD
SID898887
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Thomas Aquinas, a teacher of the church, the most important philosopher and theologian of the High Middle Ages, Doctor communis (the common teacher) and Doctor angelicus (the angelic teacher), was born around 1225 in Roccasecca near Monte Cassino and died on March 7, 1274 in Fossanuova on the way to the Council of Lyon. As a groundbreaking innovator of his time initially fought much, Thomas gained the greatest influence next Augustinus on the development of philosophical-theological thinking of the period following. With admirable synthetic power, Thomas combines the entire Christian tradition before him with the newly invading Aristotelianism into an ingenious unity, whereby he often makes historical reinterpretations, even bends, for the sake of this unity. With the help of the Aristotelian conceptual pair of reality and possibility, he explains all beings in his structure and carries out a grand ontology of the entire creation, while at the same time his basic idea of ​​the gradual, hierarchical order structure of the mere possibility of "first matter" (materia prima) to "Pure reality" (actus purus) of God is fully unfolded. Perhaps the greatest Thomas is as a phenomenologist: as an extremely clairvoyant observer, descriptor and analyzer of essential behavior. His descriptions of the theoretical as well as the practical behavior of man in his premises and structural moments are masterful. As much as Thomas Faith and Knowledge, Theology and Philosophy have fundamentally and fundamentally differentiated according to the sources, in the presentation of his works both are always interconnected. With the exception of Aristotle's commentaries and a few small writings (for example, the early essay De du et essentia, On Being and Essence), Thomas's philosophy is divided into theological works. But even in purely philosophical discussions, theological parts each occupy a large space. (After: The Great Herder Freiburg 1956: Herder)

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Thomas Aquinas, a teacher of the church, the most important philosopher and theologian of the High Middle Ages, Doctor communis (the common teacher) and Doctor angelicus (the angelic teacher), was born around 1225 in Roccasecca near Monte Cassino and died on March 7, 1274 in Fossanuova on the way to the Council of Lyon. As a groundbreaking innovator of his time initially fought much, Thomas gained the greatest influence next Augustinus on the development of philosophical-theological thinking of the period following. With admirable synthetic power, Thomas combines the entire Christian tradition before him with the newly invading Aristotelianism into an ingenious unity, whereby he often makes historical reinterpretations, even bends, for the sake of this unity. With the help of the Aristotelian conceptual pair of reality and possibility, he explains all beings in his structure and carries out a grand ontology of the entire creation, while at the same time his basic idea of ​​the gradual, hierarchical order structure of the mere possibility of "first matter" (materia prima) to "Pure reality" (actus purus) of God is fully unfolded. Perhaps the greatest Thomas is as a phenomenologist: as an extremely clairvoyant observer, descriptor and analyzer of essential behavior. His descriptions of the theoretical as well as the practical behavior of man in his premises and structural moments are masterful. As much as Thomas Faith and Knowledge, Theology and Philosophy have fundamentally and fundamentally differentiated according to the sources, in the presentation of his works both are always interconnected. With the exception of Aristotle's commentaries and a few small writings (for example, the early essay De du et essentia, On Being and Essence), Thomas's philosophy is divided into theological works. But even in purely philosophical discussions, theological parts each occupy a large space. (After: The Great Herder Freiburg 1956: Herder).