He defined a law as "an ordinance of reason for the common good" and considered the difference between a "subsistent" and a "substance" in a work whose analysis of the concept of murder in self-defense gave rise to the principle of (*) double effect.
One of this thinker's works describes things that do not themselves change, but have change "annexed to them", as "aeviternal". He defined a law as "an ordinance of reason for the common good" and considered the difference between a "subsistent" and a "substance" in a work whose analysis of the concept of murder in self-defense gave rise to the principle of (*) double effect. Truths that surpass the capability of reason are covered in the fourth section of a book by this man that was supposedly commissioned by Raymond of Peñafort. He often refers to "the Jurist", "the Commentator", and "the Philosopher", or Ulpian, Averroes, and Aristotle, in a work that introduced the quinque viae, five proofs of God's existence. For 10 points, name this Dominican friar who wrote Summa Contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica.
One of this thinker's works describes things that do not themselves change, but have change "annexed to them", as "aeviternal".
Thomas Aquinas [or Tommaso d'Aquino; or Thomas of Aquino; prompt on "Thomas"]