“It is more beautiful to transmit to others what one has contemplated than to contemplate only
,” wrote Saint Thomas Aquinas in his
Summa Theologica.
Transmitting the philosophical heritage of the doctor of the common is the ambition of the Saint Thomas Center (CST), the launch of which took place on November 24 in the heart of the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district, rue Saint-Guillaume, opposite the new Sciences Po campus.
“The CST responds to a question, which is also a form of scandal: how is it that Saint Thomas, one of humanity's greatest thinkers, is not better known to our contemporaries?
asks Éléonore de Noüel, director of the Center and doctoral student in political science at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes.
At the university, the teaching of philosophy pays little attention to the medieval period, passing from Late Antiquity to the Enlightenment.
Pierre Abélard, Anselme de Canterbéry, Guillaume d'Ockam... are mentioned briefly, but, like Thomas Aquinas, they are little studied, even...
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