When in 1 Corinthians 11:3 St. Paul says that 'man is the head of woman,' and in Ephesians 5:22 that 'a husband is the head of his wife,' Aquinas takes it as evident that if men are meant to rule, it can only be by virtue of intellectual superiority.
— Thomas Aquinas Medieval

Catholic philosopher and theologian

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c. 1265-1274

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