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wrote, "The very fact that the human being is rational necessitates its being characterized by free decision [liberum arbitrium]" ...

appetite for sex...amounts to being enslaved" and is essentially a sin (Armstrong, 1998). Armstrong (1998) indicates that there ...

has likely already noted that . Bracken (1996) suggests that what is missing from Aquinass argument is a distinction between per...

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

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

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

the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

teaching, in which he pretended not to know the answers to questions, so that students would come to understanding on their own. ...

professor is a good example of the difference between intellectual knowledge and sense knowledge. To take that a step beyond, and ...

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

In eight pages Saint Thomas Aquinas is the focus of this overview of his life and writings including Summa Theologica, The Three G...

In five pages this report considers how Aquinas differentiated between eternal law and natural law in a discussion that also inclu...

In three pages this paper discusses how God's existence was argued by Saint Thomas Aquinas. There is no bibliography included....

In eight pages this paper discusses how Aristotelian philosophy is refuted by St. Thomas Aquinas and also discusses the Summa Theo...

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...

and we would be thinking about the idea of "why" something is the way it is. Another way to look at the thoughts of Aristotle is t...

In three pages this paper analyzes the 'second way' interpretation of Saint Thomas Aquinas in the presentation of an 'in esse' and...

This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...

In ten pages this paper discusses the IRA in a consideration of oppression, the movement of the Seventies and Eighties and the the...

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

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

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

same time that other men pursue the same desires (Hobbes 185). The development of enemies comes from this course of natural compe...

In five pages this paper discusses Thomas A. Becket's murder and the mysterious disappearance of the Saint's bones is the primary ...

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

In six pages this paper discusses how the 'pursuit of happiness' was used and interpreted by Thomas Jefferson. Three sources are ...

Using the concepts of Thomas Aquinas this essay consisting of three pages discusses why dream symbolism is meaningful in terms of ...

In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...