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Thomas Aquinas

1225–1274

Also known as: St Thomas Aquinas, St. Thomas Aquinas

How Thomas Aquinas is discussed in this archive

Referenced in 1 other work — including Liberalism in South Asia .

In Liberalism in South Asia : Aquinas is named in Doering's intellectual-history opening as one of the medieval thinkers in the pre-Enlightenment lineage of the idea that power must be limited — placing him in the genealogy that culminates in liberal constitutionalism.

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  • Liberalism in South Asia · 1995
    • "the idea that power must be limited is as old as mankind, traceable through classical authors (Cicero, Tacitus), medieval thinkers (Thomas Aquinas), and the Reformation." — Doering invokes Aquinas as the medieval link in the genealogy of limited-government thinking