Read the excerpt below and answer the question. The first thing to be said about St. Thomas as an anthropologist, is that he is really remarkably like the best
sort of modern biological anthropologist. ... He adopts
almost literally the Huxleyan definition of the Agnostic
method; "To follow reason as far as it will go"; the only question is-where does it go? He lays down the almost
startlingly modern or materialist statement; "Every thing that is in the intellect has been in the senses.
The
Schoolmen may have shot too far beyond our limits in pursuing the Cherubim and Seraphim. But in asking
whether a man can choose or whether a man will die, they were asking ordinary questions in natural history;
a like whether a cat can scratch or whether a dog can smell. Nothing calling itself a complete Science of Man
can shirk them. ("The Permanent Philosophy": pp. 1-2)
Read the excerpt below. Then, explain why G. K. Chesterton claims that, "St. Thomas Aquinas, perhaps more than he is
anything else, iS a great anthropologist." Your answer should be at least 150 words.