Explore The Aesthetic Significance Of Thomas Aquinas' Theory Of The Soul

Thomas Aquinas in the history of Western civilization created before, and until today, also produced a tremendous impact on the thinkers, theologians, philosophers and aestheticians. As the most important medieval philosopher, his ideas, theories, not only represents the crowning achievement of scholastic philosophy, medieval theology and philosophy but also the largest and most comprehensive theoretical system. In a sense, his influence can be comparable to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel and others. Have been Chinese and foreign academic Thomas Aquinas theology, philosophy very seriously, and conducted in-depth study, and achieved certain results.But he paid insufficient attention to the importance of aesthetic ideas, so few studies, research yielded few results. Although there is no aesthetics of Thomas Aquinas wrote a book, but his writings are discussed in many of aesthetics and related issues. Can even be said that almost all of the Middle Ages and aesthetics related issues, can be found in his book the answer.As a comprehensive expression of the Christian philosophy, Aquinas's doctrine of the soul have a very significant achievement. His theory combination of the following theory: Philosophy of Truth and theology truth, Aristotle and Plato's doctrine, nominalism and realism, and so on. His soul to explore the premise that the service of faith and theology. However, his doctrine of the issues involved with those who recognized the soul of ancient and modern philosophers, closely linked to theory, and these issues deeply the soul of Plato and Aristotle, the impact of doctrine. Therefore, his theory has philosophical and theological dimensions of the double level of meaning.As a result of the impact of the soul doctrine, he Maidstone relations, issues such as awareness of aesthetic experience, has a unique aesthetic sense.In this paper, the soul theory as a starting point and try to sort out the soul from the doctrine of philosophical background and development of God to start to explore his soul, feeling, understanding of natural and free of Aquinas's doctrine of the soul, the soul of the aesthetic significance of theory in aesthetics the impact of development in areas such as analysis, to correctly grasp the doctrine of the soul's unique content, to broaden their thinking and understanding of their aesthetic, so as to enhance the understanding of medieval aesthetics.