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In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares each religious philosopher's arguments regarding man being separate from goodness a...

born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...

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

In five pages this paper examines how evil exists in the world in a comparative analysis of Saint Augustine of Hippo's Free Will d...

also wrote that one could live justly only if they lived in a just society (Beck, n.d.). Plato had a number of caveats about a jus...

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

with happiness, but the instant gratification achieved through immoral pleasure is not as good. It goes beyond that. Does one give...

still prevalent in Christian theology, that the all of scripture if divinely inspired and therefore completely correct. On the o...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

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

control of the United States and establish a dictatorship. Most women in Gilead are infertile after repeated exposure to pesticide...

those who would do evil. Augustine couched his ideas on government within his concept of two cities, an earthly city and a city o...

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

the human soul, the other for evil and matter, including the body(Gilson 3-66). However, when he became dissatisfied with the mat...

and symbols, that is, how abstract ideas are communicated through the mediums of language, writing and also through visual communi...

In ten pages this research paper discusses the philosophical arguments of Jean Paul Sartre, William James, Michel de Montaigne, Th...

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 seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...

the Buddhist worldview and the goal of detaching oneself from the material world and the body. "Thought is an attribute that rea...

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

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

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

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

a certain inclination towards laziness. In discussing his childhood, Augustines theories toward education come out. He adamantly r...

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

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

This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

In five pages this paper contrasts the philosophical perspectives of David Hume and Thomas Aquinas regarding religion and ultimate...

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