托马斯·阿奎那其人其事,我们迄今只是从欧洲哲学史一些书本上知道一鳞半爪,空洞地称他为中世纪著名的思想家、哲学家和神学家,而更多的则是从流传的“哲学是神学的使女”那句所谓格言去认识的,因而给人们的印象他是中世纪一名保守的乃至反动的人物。可是,在基督教世界里,托马斯被公认为在思想上和理论上为教会作出了卓越的贡献,因而被推荐为全教会的导师,全人类敬仰的圣者。从欧洲思想发展史来看,托马斯·阿奎那正处在中世纪这一关键的转折时期。公元初,原先由奥古斯丁等教父基于信仰基督、排斥现 So far, Thomas Aquinas have known everything from the history of European philosophy until now. He has long known himself as a well-known thinker, philosopher and theologian in the Middle Ages, but more from the “philosophy The so-called aphrodisiac of theology ”, thus giving the impression that he was a conservative and even reactionary man of the Middle Ages. However, in the Christian world, Thomas was widely regarded as an ideologically and theoretically outstanding contributor to the Church and was therefore recommended as a teacher of the entire church, a revered holy man. Judging from the history of the development of European thought, Thomas Aquinas is at a crucial turning point in the Middle Ages. Early AD, the original godfather of Augustine, based on the faith of Christ, excluded now