The hidden operations of nature: Thomas Aquinas and the introduction of two types of anomalies in the Aristotelian physical structure

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Ana Maria Carmen Minecan
Universidad Complutense de Madrid - Facultad de Filosofía
Spain
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Vol 36 No 1 (2017), Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15304/ag.36.1.2954
Submitted: 03-12-2015 Accepted: 17-06-2016 Published: 19-12-2016
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This article analyzes the assimilation in the work of Thomas Aquinas of the fundamental principles of Aristotelian physical necessitarianism and the introduction, from the point of view of Christian cosmology, of two types of phenomena outside the natural philosophy of Aristotle: the hidden operations of nature and the miracles. It studies the Aquinas’s posture about the magnetism, tides, therapeutic properties of the compounds and the origin of the powers of the necromantic figures and relics.

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Thomas Aquinas, medieval physics, medieval Aristotelianism, necessitarianism, contingency, anomaly, miracle
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