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of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...
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...
reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...
the United States holding the political bag. Ho Chi Minh determined that this was the perfect time to try and reunite North and So...
in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...
In ten pages this research paper discusses the philosophical arguments of Jean Paul Sartre, William James, Michel de Montaigne, Th...
In seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...
greedy for gain" (Machiavelli 56). Men, Machiavelli argued, were by nature more interested in their own good than in achieving th...
the problem-solving work "forward by rendering intelligible the problems various dimensions" (Miller, 2002, p. 173). The first se...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...
Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...
tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...
This paper pertains to the War on Drugs and argues that, while this is a real war, it is not one that US authorities can win. Thre...
of volunteers complied with the instructions they were given, many were prepared to continuing giving electric shocks which could ...
he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...
truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...
In five pages the opening chapters of this text are analyzed with the emphasis on Thomas Aquinas' writings as considered by the au...
This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...
In five pages this paper examines such metaphysical phenomena as change, Cambridge change, real change, and existence within the c...
principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
virtue, i.e., justice, but it is also included under Aquinas discussion of love, specifically under love of ones neighbor, for Go...
if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...