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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Thomist"”.
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Ethics and human nature : a reconsideration of ethical naturalism in contemporary thomist writings
It is argued in this thesis that much modem and contemporary moral philosophy has been subjectivist, and that this is largely due to the theory of knowledge that has accompanied the increasing dominance of modem science in the determination of our thought-patterns. The expansion of standards of …
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Virtue and the Philosophical Life in the Thomist Tradition at the University of Padua, from Aquinas to Cajetan (1225-1534)
… Padua, the philosophical life persisted in the Thomist tradition. That question is the nature of the relationship of the acquired, natural virtues to the infused virtues of Christian revelation. If the acquired virtues are complete in themselves, not requiring supernaturally infused virtue for …
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Can art be a medium for connection with God: reflections on Taylor, Aquinas and Maritain
… influential analysis of secularization, Neo-Thomist anthropology, and Jacques Maritain’s theory of art. This dissertation proceeds through a triangulation of concepts. First, Taylor’s secularization theory is the necessary context for understanding and developing his notion of fullness. …
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An exploration of virtue ethics and its relational value: A comparative study in the Light of Romanus Cessario, James F. Keenan, and Joseph J. Kotva.
… He characterizes his method as ressourcement-Thomist and a realist Thomist. Such an approach returns to “authoritative sources” of Christian faith in order to rediscover their meaning and establish a continuity with past. It considers particular themes like virtue ethics and human nature, …
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A Comparative Critique of the Moral Philosophies of Alasdair MacIntyre and John Hare
… The argument of this chapter is that the Thomist elements of MacIntyre’s philosophy further the explanatory scope of his Aristotelianism. The chapter concludes with a response to two major objections. Chapter 4 presents the moral philosophy of John Hare and argues that three areas that …
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Is Ancient Eudaimonism a Defensible Normative Ethical Position?
… normative ethical position, though a Medieval Thomist version of eudaimonism will ultimately be defended due to the limitations of Hellenistic ethics.
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À mes amis qui croient et à ceux qui croient ne pas croire: Natural Knowledge of God and the Propulsion of Reason in Henri de Lubac; A Re-assessment
… he may not be said to collapse the classical Thomist distinction between natural theology and revelation. The study concludes with an assessment of the success of de Lubac’s thought in view of contemporary philosophy of religion debates, and questions the extent to which his natural theology …
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Racionalidade filosófica, racionalidade científica e os limites da tradição analítica: uma contribuição à teoria das tradições de pesquisa racional de Alasdair MacIntyre
… to reality. It approximates to the Aristotelian-Thomist tradition and, in its mature version, finds in this tradition its own model and takes itself to be its heir. It is committed to a conception of rationality specifically adapted, it is argued, to philosophical practice, being an important …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… through a contrastive analysis of Franciscan and Thomistic poetics. Poems composed by Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure, and Iacopone, read in light of the early development of a Franciscan theological school,” exhibit features of a more affective Dionysianism which tends toward an extrinsic …
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Thomas Aquinas on Human Nature
… some of the interpretations made by contemporary Thomist scholars. St. Thomas emphasises the autonomy of the person, the capacity to reason and to make choices. In order to explore St. Thomas’s ethics I will consider intellect and will which are, for him, the two great powers of the soul and show …