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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Thomism"”.
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Renaissance Thomism at the University of Padua, 1465-1583
Thomism had an official position at the University of Padua from the second half of the fifteenth century until the middle of the eighteenth century. Through lectures as well as published works, the Dominican professors who taught theology and metaphysics in via S. Thomae made important …
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The Justification of Deontology
… Rossian intuitionism, Kantianism, and Neo-Thomism. In each of these chapters, I lay out the relevant portion of the view’s deontological apparatus, analyzing it both for its plausibility as a whole and for its ability to justify constraints of the appropriate shape. After assessing and …
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What matter? Human nature beyond the Cartesian Framework. An essay in metapsychology
… and non-Western metaphysics, namely Thomism and Buddhist philosophy - neither of which encounter any body/mind problem in theor accounts of human nature because they do not share the assumptions of the Cartesian framework. Finally, it suggests that more than simply revealing the …
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Alexander Hegius (ca. 1433-98) : His life, Philosophy, and Pedagogy
… of a nominalist philosophy and away from the Thomism prevalent in the schools of the Low Countries. The complex interplay of this nominalism with his emerging humanism had far-reaching effects on the curriculum and methods in Deventer and made St. Lebuins an outstanding center of the new …
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Chesterton, modernism, and the representation of reality
… and the way in which Chesterton approaches Thomism as the philosophical means by which he attempts to unite the literal graphics of writing with metaphysical reality. In so doing, this dissertation argues that Chesterton charts a way beyond both modernism and anti-modernism toward a new kind …
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Traces of Otherness in St. Thomas Aquinas' Theology of Grace
This 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 …
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Thomistic feminism.
This dissertation draws on the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas to think through questions about sex and gender in light of contemporary thinking, particularly questions drawn from feminist and gender theory. In chapter two, I present the metaphysics of sex differentiation as an accidental difference …
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The person and society Rawls, Maritain, and the concept of personhood in politics
John Rawls, a titanic figure in political philosophy in the 20th century, thought he could make politics independent of metaphysics, that he could work up a neutral, coherent, and compelling account of justice free of controversial elements of a particular "worldview." I am not the first critic to …
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Legends of Light: Crafting middle grade fantasy in the tradition of Catholic philosophy and medieval visual culture
<p>This essay promotes the writing and illustrating of middle grade literature that mirrors the wonder-inducing experiences of leafing through an illuminated manuscript and stepping into a Gothic cathedral. An examination of Catholic medieval visual culture moves into a discussion on its underlying …