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truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...

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

like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...

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

doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...

In ten pages this tutorial paper imagines a lively dialogue between political philosophers including St. Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle...

The duties of a king to his subjects and their duties to him were viewed somewhat differently by St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle....

own regions. For example, in New York it is legal for a woman to remove her shirt on a public, city street but few do so as they r...

In nine pages this paper discusses how man's best life can be best pursued, concepts of good and evil, and divine knowledge accord...

for example, would exist even if there were no human beings there to see it, but not that colour was an independent spiritual form...

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

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

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

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

"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

John Stuart Mill presented his take on the law in On Liberty. This paper contrasts his view with Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics an...

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

In eight pages this research paper contrasts and compares these Christian theologians in terms of their similarities and differenc...

Hylemorphism's preference over materialism in philosophy is examined from the metaphysical perspectives of Thomas Aquinas and Aris...

and bring the concept back to reality, most people know someone who gets wonderful grades in school, but does not have a lick of c...

we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

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

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

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...

In twenty two pages this paper defines sacrament in this overview of the origins of the Christian Sacraments and considers theolog...

In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...