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St. Thomas Aquinas on Redemption

tradition(Microsoft Corp. 2002). This synthesis he brought into line with the Bible and Roman Catholic doctrine. What the...

Dennis Bonnette's Origin Of The Human Species

In a paper consisting of seven pages the philosopher Bonnette is compared with Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle in the contention that...

Concept of Rights

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the concept of rights in a consideration of ideals and the interpretations of T...

Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle on Virtue

subdivided into passions and reason (Yu 323). So, too, was his moral character, which explained how man could exist as both a soc...

Aristotle, Aquinas, and Plato on a Man's Best Life

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

'Just War' Concept

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

Dreams and Whether or Not They Are Meaningful

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

Philosophy Q and A

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...

Just War and Operation Enduring Freedom

in World War II. Not only did Japan attack American soil, and its people, but the United States could no longer ignore the debauch...

Philosophy Questions and Religion

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

Analysis of Relativism vs. Absolutism

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

Laws, Morality, Plato, Aquinas, and Hobbes

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

Memory in the Tenth Book of Confessions by St. Augustine

not be found unless it were in ones memory. Chapter XIX tells what it is to remember. In Augustines...

Gothic Cathedral and Dante

moderation. We can see this as he puts those people in the first stages of hell, which had been neutral -nothing good-nothing bad...

Biography and Arguments of Saint Augustine of Hippo

In four pages this paper presents an autobiography of Saint Augustine and also considers his arguments on the existence of God....

Christian Views on Evil

story has on an impressionable young mind. What did Isaac think and feel at the time? What must he have thought when he was bound ...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

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

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas

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...

Thomas Aquinas

Dominican Order)," dedicating his life to following his Orders commitment to both scholarship and ministry (Honderich, et al 43). ...

Holy Grail's History

(Mabinogion, p. 79). The Mabinogion chronicles do not seem to have been widely circulated outside of Wales, probably because of t...

Augustine, Aquinas and Luther/Role of Government

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

Materialism is Not Preferred Over Hylemorphism

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

Analysis of God's Existence

In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...

Philosophical Arguments Pertaining to God's Existence

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

The King as Seen by Aristotle and Aquinas

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

God's Existence and Morality

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

Overview of the Christian Sacraments and How They Originated

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

Arguments in Philosophy

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

Materialism, Hylemorphism, and Philosophy

The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...

Politics and Imaginary Dialogues

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