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problem that too affects North America. In January of 2000 U.S. Customs Service commissioner launched a Northern Border Security I...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...

Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at Maslow's hierarchy of needs. The concept's value as a motivational tool is explored....

he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...

those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...

truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

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

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

Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...

virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...

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

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, ...

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...

Christ. This theology is intrinsically connected with concepts concerning free will and the theological argument between "works" a...

play nor a reflection of a womans behavior. Equally disturbing as the act of rape itself is when these acts result in pregnancy. ...

unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...

Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...

supported this argument in support of Gods existence, contending that the external world is the ruling force behind the presence o...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

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