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This paper consists of six pages and evaluates whether or not Thomas Aquinas can be considered a direct realist and argues that he...

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

meaningful in life. Guth writes that this makes Dorothea lack warmth, that she has no meaning in her own life because she is not r...

greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...

In ten pages this research paper discusses the philosophical arguments of Jean Paul Sartre, William James, Michel de Montaigne, Th...

In seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...

when the teams losing streak continues. There is one boy in the high school, Jimmy (Maris Valainis) who is a superb player, with...

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...

their lives and they were willing to offer such gifts to others, symbolic of their natural existence and nature as giving people....

one hand. (McAllister 158). Such an illustration is incredibly focused in realist tradition, as Pip struggles to develop himself...

examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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, ...