Leighton Library, Dunblane

Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library founded in 1687

Leighton Library has 1638 edition of "Summa Theologica" by Saint Thomas Aquinas

Added at 07:26 on 07 March 2025

The Leighton Library has a 1638 edition of "Summa Theologica" one of the best known works of Italian Dominican priest and philosopher, Saint Thomas Aquinas, who died #OnThisDay 7 March 1274. He was an immensely influential philosopher and foremost classical proponent of natural theology. Much of modern philosophy was conceived in development or refutation of his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory

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