KnowraThomas AquinasLinked fromLinked fromThe 90 pages that link to Thomas Aquinas, each with the reason it gives.All 90Broader topic 5Related 75Narrower topic 2Compared with 8Occam's razorCompared with: Aquinas offers a major scholastic comparison for Ockham's distinct approach to explanation and universals.William of OckhamCompared with: Aquinas’s realist account of universals contrasts with Ockham’s rejection of universals as independent entities.Active intellectCompared with: He argued that active and possible intellects are powers of each individual human soul.Latin AverroismCompared with: His treatise against Averroists directly challenged the movement’s signature interpretation.Duns ScotusCompared with: Aquinas provides a major contemporary framework against which Scotus’s metaphysics is often compared.Jean BuridanCompared with: Aquinas’s account of motion provides an earlier scholastic alternative to Buridan’s impetus explanation.AlexandristsCompared with: His account of the individual intellect opposed the Alexandrist reading of Aristotle.Alphonsus LiguoriCompared with: Liguori’s practical moral theology drew on a tradition in which Aquinas remained a major authority.