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Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature
In this thesis I will examine St. Thomas Aquinas’s treatment of human nature and connect my findings with his conception of the ultimate end o f human existence. As a theologian St. Thomas held the position that man’s ultimate goal is happiness or beatitudo - which consists in the vision of God. …
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Prudence in Aristotle and ST. Thomas Aquinas
… to the way of life of the gods. For St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle is the Philosopher. In treating of prudence, Aquinas follows Aristotle very closely especially in his Commentary on Aristotle’s 'Nicomachean Ethics He teaches that prudence is a virtue of the practical intellect that is related in …
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Atheism and Analogy: Aquinas Against the Atheists
In the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas developed two models for how humans may speak of God - either by the analogy of proportion or by the analogy of proportionality. Aquinas's doctrines initiated a theological debate concerning analogy that spanned several centuries. In the 18th century, there …
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THE CONCEPT OF ‘BEING’ IN AQUINAS AND PALAMAS
… writings of St. Gregory Palamas and St. Thomas Aquinas. Primarily, I set two main focuses for my research: firstly, an overview of the life and work of the great Byzantine theologian and, secondly, a comparative analysis with St. Thomas Aquinas on the issue of being. Although the present …
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Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Singular Thought
… of the intellectual cognition of singulars, Aquinas claims that the intellect cognizes singulars by way of mental images. Some recent commentators have claimed that Aquinas' appeal to mental images is inadequate to account for the intellectual cognition of singulars because mental images …
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Aquinas on justice, judgment, and the unity of peace.
St. Thomas Aquinas's chief contribution to politics is generally taken to be centered around his understanding of the law, and primarily focused on finding a transcendent basis for the authority of particular laws. In this dissertation, I argue that Aquinas is concerned rather to show that law is …
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Traces of Otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas' Theology of Grace
… dissertation looks into the work of St. Thomas Aquinas and addresses his theology of grace through the lens of the postmodern concern for the other. The first chapter sets up the postmodern view using Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida to draw out the fundamental grounding for the concern for …
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Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Modern Theory of Economic Welfare
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External sense cognition in the Summa contra gentiles of Thomas Aquinas
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The Metaphysics of Causation in the Creation Accounts of Avicenna and Aquinas
… of two prominent philosophers, Avicenna and Aquinas. Both attempt to articulate comprehensive causal theories which include an analysis of God's creation of the universe. Despite their distinct cultural and religious milieus, both men describe creating as an action performed by God. I examine …
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Contemplation and the Human Animal in the Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas
… dissertation explores how, according to Thomas Aquinas, the operations of the sensitive soul are necessary for ordinary (i.e., not mystical) human contemplation, and for the acquisition of knowledge which precedes contemplation.</p><p>The sensitive soul is the soul possessed by all sentient …
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Is Wrong Life All That Is Possible? Adorno and Aquinas on Ethics
… an engagement with the ethical thought of Thomas Aquinas, toward the possibility of right life.
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The role of sensus communis in Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Locke and Kant
… Communis" in the Philosophy of Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Locke, Leibniz and Kant. The conception of the "Sensus Communis" was first introduced in the field of psychological study by Aristotle. In the De Anima, after he examined the function of each peripheral sense-organ of sight, hearing, …
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The Influence of Thomas Aquinas’ Concept of Createdness on Josef Pieper’s Moral Philosophy
… by reference to the theology of Thomas Aquinas, and specifically Aquinas’ concept of the created human person. Pieper uses Aquinas’ theological anthropology to argue for three actions which respond to the reality of being created: giving assent to having been brought into existence by …
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Natural realism : the world and the mind according to Aquinas, Dretske, and Putnam
St, Thomas Aquinas' and Fred Dretske's accounts of mind and cognition are explored, compared, and contrasted. Similarities are found in their accounts of the mind's cognitive operation, in that both accounts recognize the presence of representations at the levels of perception and …
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