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In six pages this paper presents the arguments of Karl Rahner regarding philosophies on the individual according to Aquinas and Lo...

occurred in theological understanding in the last one hundred years (Doran, 1997; Ormerod, 1996). What was once a relative uniform...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

human nature is bound by the weakness of mans character? In short, Platos (1979) freed prisoner is himself, the cave reflects the...

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

unusual for a theologian (St. Thomas Aquinas, 2002). Aquinas made many significant contributions to philosophy and specifically i...

has likely already noted that . Bracken (1996) suggests that what is missing from Aquinass argument is a distinction between per...

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 paper considers the views of Professor Bernard Williams, who is Cambridge University's Knightbridge Professor of...

Thomas Aquinas' distinctive theology and philosophy and how it differed from the ancient Greek thinkers are examined in seven page...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

In five pages this paper examines the philosophies of Thomas Hobbes and Jean Jacques Rousseau in a consideration of community and ...

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...

tutelage of Peter of Ireland to study logic and natural sciences (Kennedy, 2006; McKerny, 2002). It was there that he first met me...

man who understood the "power of language" and "fought through language to influence history" (Demetrios, 2002, p. 7). Thomas Pa...

been able to cope with the expansive growth seen over the last fifty years. In order to consider this we need to look at the compa...