Alexander of Hales

Alexander of Hales was a believer of philosophy being based on natural reason and
theology and that philosophy is independent of theology and also is based on divine revelation.

Alexander of hales emphasizes on being speculative theory that initiated the golden age
of scholasticism. Alexander was influenced by Peter Lombard Augustine and Boethius and also
Aristotle mainly in the field of ethics.

Alexander of hales’ philosophy is basically about an Augustinian discarding popular

avicennian tenets of emanations from a godhead while the franciscan theories of mater and form
in spiritual creatures and of illumination combined with illumination is alexander’s adaptation of
similar theories.

Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon was born in a rich family. He was the one that introduced aritotle in to
western europe which actually revealed that he was a Aristotelian that was maked by the
neoplatanism.

Bacon is an english Franciscan philosopher and an educational reformer that had a major
influence in the medieval proponent of experimental science. Bacon studies a lot of things such
as mathematics optics astronomy alchemy and languages. He also is the first to explain in detail
how to make a gunpowder the idea of the wright brothers came from him the flying vehicles,
motorized ships and carriages.

St. Bonaventure

St. Bonaventure was an italian medieval Franciscan theologian and a philosopher cardinal bishop
of albano he was canonized on april 14 1482 by pope sixtus IV and wa s declared doctor of the
church.

Bonaventure’s philosophy was greatly influenced by Augustine of Hippo also considered as the
best medieval representative as De Wulf calles him. Bonaventure adds aritotles’philosophy with
augustine’s doctines especially inconnection with the illumination of the intellect and
composition of human beings and other living creatures in terms of matter.
St. Albert the Great

Magnus ia also known as albert of cologne he was a german catholic dominican afriar and a
bishop. His philosophies were greatly influenced by aritotle as his philosophical works was
generally divided according to the aristotelian schem of sciences and consists os interpretations
and cosiderations of aristotle’s relative works

His nowledge about natural philo is remarkable and accurate, he produced commentaries and
paraphrases of the entire aristotelian corpus including his specific works but magnus added in to
it an made it better

St. Thomas Aquinas

Aquinas was a dominican friar philosopher and a catholic priest and also a doctor of the church.
He is the father of thomism of which he argued that the reason is found in God and God alone.
He never considered himself as a philosopher because he was always falling short of the tue and
proper wisdom to be found in Christian revelation. Thomas's philosophical thought has exerted
enormous influence on subsequent Christian theology, especially that of the Catholic Church,
extending to Western philosophy in general.

Thomas Aquinas believed "that for the knowledge of any truth whatsoever man needs divine
help, that the intellect may be moved by God to its act." His ethics as he wrote in his summa was
Virtue denotes a certain perfection of a power. Now a thing's perfection is considered chiefly in
regard to its end. But the end of power is act. Wherefore power is said to be perfect, according as
it is determinate to its act.