Some of his writings defend the Christian notion of the immortality of the individual soul against a contemporary strain of though that said all humans become part of a single intelligence upon death.
He put forth a "three-fold distinction" in order to solve the problem of universals, and his ideas about the structure of the universe are found in his doctrine of "a summoning of the good." Some of his writings defend the Christian notion of the immortality of the individual soul against a contemporary strain of though that said all humans become part of a single intelligence upon death. His original thought is inserted as "experiments" and "digressions" in his commentaries on earlier texts, written while he held the "foreigners" chair at Paris, and this man argued against the Averroists. In 1248, he was dispatched to found the first Studium Generalei in Germany at Cologne. This patron saint of scientists is chiefly important for his interpretations of Aristotle, which made that philosopher prominent again in the West. For 10 points, name this Dominican who was also the instructor of Thomas Aquinas.
He put forth a "three-fold distinction" in order to solve the problem of universals, and his ideas about the structure of the universe are found in his doctrine of "a summoning of the good."
{Albertus Magnus} [or {Albert the Great}; or {Albert of Cologne}; prompt on {Albert}us]