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In twenty two pages this paper defines sacrament in this overview of the origins of the Christian Sacraments and considers theolog...

The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...

In eight pages Saint Thomas Aquinas is the focus of this overview of his life and writings including Summa Theologica, The Three G...

own regions. For example, in New York it is legal for a woman to remove her shirt on a public, city street but few do so as they r...

subdivided into passions and reason (Yu 323). So, too, was his moral character, which explained how man could exist as both a soc...

In five pages the opening chapters of this text are analyzed with the emphasis on Thomas Aquinas' writings as considered by the au...

This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...

In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

basic argument that Aquinas presents for the existence of God. The following is just one way in which this could be addressed: A...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

needs of the spirit, which were outlined through divine law (Pierce, 2002). The law of nature, Epictetus believed, was that the be...

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...

doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...

be the first cause (Philosophy Online, n.d.). 3. Everything that exists at one time did not and may not at some time in the future...

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...

infinite substance: God, "the universal essence or nature of everything that exists" (Wozniak, 1995). Spinoza (1997) persevered a...

the fire next to him. Therefore, he reasons that the effect, the idea of God, must have a cause in reality. Descartes writes, "B...