HOW RAPHAEL PORTRAYED THOMAS AQUINAS’S LOGIC OF GENOCIDE AGAINST THE CATHARS

HOW_RAPHAEL_PORTRAYED_THOMAS_AQUINASS_LOGIC_OF_GENOCIDE_AGAINST_THE_CATHARS

This report is a postscript to my previous report: WHAT_DOES PURSUIT_OF_HAPPINESS_MEAN_FOR_PLATO. In the concluding remarks of that previous report, I identified how for Plato, it is truly the happiness of others which makes your own.  This is also the principle that Raphael adhered to in painting the two major frescoes in the Vatican Stanza della Signatura, The School of Athens and The dispute of the Holy Sacrament, with a truthful reference to Pope Innocent III’s genocidal collusion with Thomas Aquinas against the Cathars people of Southern France during the thirteenth century.

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