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Essays 61 - 90
In seven pages this report examines Utilitarianism and the ethics of Immanuel Kant in a comparison of the rational and moral views...
In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
In five pages this paper tries to prove love exists by using Thomas Aquinas' 5 proofs of God's existence. One source is cited in ...
In five pages the opening chapters of this text are analyzed with the emphasis on Thomas Aquinas' writings as considered by the au...
In twenty two pages this paper defines sacrament in this overview of the origins of the Christian Sacraments and considers theolog...
In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...
The views of Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle are examined in this consideration of the preference for hylemorphism over materialism i...
he could grasp with his own intellect, what he could actually perceive by his own senses, and what a trustworthy person told him. ...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
needs of the spirit, which were outlined through divine law (Pierce, 2002). The law of nature, Epictetus believed, was that the be...
play nor a reflection of a womans behavior. Equally disturbing as the act of rape itself is when these acts result in pregnancy. ...
I want to do? Are there really any obligations which reach me from outside the realm of my own desire? To put it into a more pithy...
In six pages this report contrasts and compares the views of Thomas Aquinas, Aristotle, and Plato on economic growth in terms of h...
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 five pages this paper examines such metaphysical phenomena as change, Cambridge change, real change, and existence within the c...
This paper consists of six pages and evaluates whether or not Thomas Aquinas can be considered a direct realist and argues that he...
truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...
if Charity is "something created in the soul" (Aquinas 17). Without background knowledge on this debate, his points become somewha...
principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
This itself is also likely to have been influenced by the long Peloponnesian war in which Plato himself was involved. Different me...
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
like the male philosophers of the day. She was the exception. While by and large, the people saw women as having a subservient pla...
Christ. The polytheistic society of ancient Greece was already moving toward belief in a single god by the time of Plato and his ...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...