Grace perfects nature.

Reason is the handmaiden of faith.

The intellect is always directed to the good.

All men should do their own homework.

>>1338026
Also God is the prime mover who set all action into being.

>>1337726

The distinction between essence (what a thing is) and existence in creatures was very import, and lead to a clash between the Thomist's and the Scottists since Duns Scotus didn't buy that you could take about what a thing was apart from it existing.

>>1338070
Would it be fair to say that essence is roughly equivalent to a Platonic form?

>>1338155
No. Aquinas was most influenced by Aristotle's treatment in the metaphysics, which happens to be pretty scattered.

>>1337726
Kill all jews race war now.

>>1338155

Kind of, but really roughly imo. Essence is the "what it is to be" of a thing. Plato answers the question of "what it is to be x" with Platonic forms. Aristotle does it with essences, which are a bit more of a complicated notion. For Plato concrete things just "imitate" the forms, and it is those forms which are real. Essences are aspects of real concrete things on one hand, while transcending them on the other in a different way. Aquinas was mainly running off the idea that to know what a certain thing is is not to know that it actually exists or not. I can know exactly what a Chimera is, without knowing if one really exists somewhere in the universe or not.

Torture and kill anyone who doesn't agree with my retarded christfag ideas.

>>1338155

You're the same guy that asked if Jung's archetypes of the unconscious were the same as Plato's Forms aren't you?