Abstract

Then it agrees or disagrees with what he says, as needed, for reasons of various sorts, whether philosophical, theological, scientific, historical, etc. - of whatever sort, just so long as they are relevant and cogent; to do these things as well as possible, if only in a small way - pro nostro modulo, as Aquinas puts it, in describing what he intends to do as the author of the Summa Contra Gentiles.