Compromise

The purpose of Thomas Aquinas’ philosophy was to express Greek philosophy in Christian terms. (It must be remembered that the study of psychology was at this time contained within the field of philosophy). The result of this compromise we will look at later, but first let us examine Aquinas’ theories in psychology. If you were to ask Aquinas how do we know what we do, he would answer you by saying: sensation. That is, the body and soul working in harmony together receive stimulations from the...