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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 four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...
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...
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...
truth that transcends the traditional means of understanding or knowing. For Aquinas, reason does have limitations. He writes: "N...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
born a Jew and lived under the Jewish law and system (Galatians 4:4). * Jesus life was characterized by service and humility (Phil...
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 ...
the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...
we note that it "covers what we can know by Gods special revelation to us (which comes through the Bible and Christian Tradition)....
doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...
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...