In 1244, to his family's horror, he joined the Dominican Order of mendicant (begging) friars who espoused complete poverty and traveled the country spreading the Gospel as living examples of Jesus' teaching. His affluent family, which had expected him to join the Benedictines (a powerful, prestigious order - with great corporate wealth) was appalled; when he wouldn't take their advice, his father locked him up in the castle where he had been born. According to legend, his family offered him all sorts of bribes, including a beautiful prostitute, whose services Aquinas supposedly refused, much to his father's dismay.
In Paris, the Dominicans had fallen under the suspicion of the conservative university authorities because of their "heretical sympathy" with Averroist doctrine that, contrary to Christian doctrine, it is not the human personality as exemplified by the individual soul that is immortal but only the active intellect, which is numerically identical in all sentient beings.
Aquinas helped defend the Dominicans with his Averroist arguments that there were two different sorts of truths, one based on reason and the other based on revelation and that only through revelation could one know the "real" truth. Since Christian dogma was foundationally embedded in views antithetical to Averroes's monopsychism, its truths must supersede the cosmic unity of all mankind as , its truths must supersede the cosmic unity of all mankind as espoused by the internal Aristotelian philosophers of the Averroes school.
1244年，令他的家人感到恐惧的是，他加入了多米尼加乞丐修士团，这些修士支持完全贫困，并在全国各地传播福音，作为耶稣教导的活生生的例子。原本以为他会加入本笃会(一个势力强大、享有声望、拥有巨额企业财富的教会)的富裕家庭对此感到震惊;当他不接受他们的建议时，他父亲把他锁在了他出生的城堡里。据传说，他的家人给了他各种各样的贿赂，包括一个美丽的妓女，据说阿奎那拒绝了她的服务。
在巴黎，多米尼加人被保守的大学当局猜忌，因为他们“异端的认同”阿威罗伊主义教义 ,与基督教教义相反, 永恒的不是由个人灵魂所展示的人的个性,而是在所有有知觉的人身上数量上相同的理性。
阿奎那用他的阿威罗伊主义论点为多明我会辩护，称有两种不同的真理，一种基于理性，另一种基于神的昭示，只有通过启示才能知道“真正的”真理。由于基督教教义根植于与阿威罗伊的一神论（一元心灵论：认为只有一个不朽的心灵，而个人心灵只是这个心灵的显示）对立的观点中，它的真理必须取代全人类的宇宙统一，正如它的真理必须取代阿威罗伊学派内部亚里士多德哲学家所拥护的全人类的宇宙统一一样。
Write an essay within 400 words discussing people's attitudes towars pleasures.
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写一篇400字以内的文章，讨论人们对快乐的态度。
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你对快乐的态度来源于你最初的追求
In this way, Aquinas either advertently or inadvertently managed to appease the conservative critics of philosophy and revive Greek philosophy within the Christian domain. Like his antithesis Averroes, his early work consisted mostly of commentaries on Aristotle. Among his best original writings are De Ente et Essentia, which explores the nature of being and essence, the De Principiis Naturae on the principles and causes of change in nature, and De Unitate Interllectus in which he explicitly argues against the Averroist position that all human beings share one and the same, numerically identical, intellect. His two most important works are the encyclopedic Summa contra Gentiles and Summa Theologica. The latter contains his famous "five proofs" for the existence of God.
通过这种方式，阿奎那或有意或无意地安抚了保守的哲学批评家，并在基督教领域内复兴了希腊哲学。和他的对手阿威罗伊斯一样，他早期的作品主要是对亚里士多德的评论。他最优秀的原创作品有《论存在与本质的本质》(De…
Similarly, instead of simply declaring Averroist monopsychism to be a false heresy, he argued that whether the individual human soul was mortal or immortal could not be settled by reason; one needs revelation to know the truth. Aristotelian arguments against the immortality of the soul according to Aquinas only help make the point that without divine revelation there can be no knowledge. This line of thought pleased church leaders and at the same time, ironically, made the arguments of the philosophers part of the church's "proof" of the need for nonphilosophical ways of knowing truth - not by reason but directly from God, through revelation.
同样地，他也没有简单地宣称阿威罗伊的一性论是错误的异端邪说，他认为，人的灵魂是会死的还是不朽的，不能用理性来解决;一个人需要启示才能知道真相。亚里士多德反对灵魂不朽的论点，根据阿奎那的观点，只有助于说明，没有神的启示，就不会有知识。这一思路取悦了教会领袖，同时，具有讽刺意味的是，使哲学家的论点成为教会“证明”需要用非哲学的方式了解真理的一部分——不是通过理性，而是直接从上帝那里，通过启示。
Aristotle's main works had been lost to the non-Arabic world until the early part of the thirteenth century. Conservative Christian thelolgians feared their return to the philosophical scene, especially after the Islamic philosophers had put their own spins and interpretations on them through their commentaries; the theologians saw his works as a pagan and infidel threat to their Christian dogma. Aquinas took the oposite approach. He saw Aristotle as the greatest of all philosophers - calling him The Philosopher - and he also saw an opportunity to put Christian doctrine on a solid intellectual foundation through Aristotle's metaphysics, cosmology, and epistemology.
In most cases, however, when there was an outright conflict between the two worldviews, Aquinas went to great lengths…