Aquinas believed good law must be enforceable, otherwise it would be disregarded and risk causing contempt for all laws. |
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Having said this, however, Aquinas freely admitted that existence was indeed accidental to substance. |
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These reflections on human action derive largely from Aristotle, Aquinas and Kant. |
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In this way, Kant renders a service akin to that which Aristotle, Aquinas, and Locke offer though their descriptions of natural law. |
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Of the medieval scholastics, Aquinas was less interested in who ruled than in the uses to which the ruling interest was put. |
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Even Thomas Aquinas was a stowaway, as the Spaniards smuggled his scholasticism and rigid conceptions of social hierarchy into the Americas. |
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Empiricists like Locke and rationalists like Newton lacked the rich ontology of Thomas Aquinas and the medieval schoolmen. |
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St Thomas Aquinas, the medieval theologian who shaped society's thinking on the deadly sins, rated pride as the worst of all. |
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For Aquinas the norms of morality are defined in terms of their relationship to human happiness. |
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Keep in mind, though, that not all entities, according to Aquinas, have an essence, though all, by necessity, have a form. |
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He urges us to read Aquinas as responding to a series of conflicts rather than as pontificating from a nonhistorical perspective. |
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The James translation became the Vulgate, and the translation done for Thomas Aquinas by William Moerbeke never received much usage. |
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St. Thomas Aquinas taught that a person who is in a state of grace is open to the virtues and gifts that God has poured out. |
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For theologians like Aquinas and Maimonides and many others past and present, the very essence of God is his incommunicability. |
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Without appealing to God, Aquinas sees no way of explaining how we recognize the truth of first principles. |
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A service was held at a funeral home in Fairfield followed by burial at St Thomas Aquinas Church in the town. |
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Aquinas leans in the direction of the former view, but realizes that the latter could in fact be the case. |
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Aquinas or any number of other theologians could have provided Luther with a richer notion of grace. |
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Aquinas accepted Aristotle's view that God cannot change and is impassible. |
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Aquinas continued, presenting the locus classicus of the Argument from Design. |
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Keith Burgess-Jackson has just put something up on Aquinas, as it happens. |
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I suspect his final opera omni in a critical German edition will equal in length that of Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure. |
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Anselm of Canterbury, eleventh-century theologian, monk and Church hierarch, is arguably the major figure in the theological road from Augustine to Aquinas. |
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You did mention Saint Thomas Aquinas, patron of the university, and you know he would have syllogized your argument right into the dust bin and has with his Summa Theologica. |
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Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican friar, and a theological giant. |
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Through analyses of William James, Alvin Plantinga, Aquinas, Kant and Kierkegaard, Evans argues that responsible fideists employ reason to conclude that reason is limited. |
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Mother Aquinas faced the decision with great courage and tact. |
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The foremost angelologist, perhaps of all time, was St. Thomas Aquinas, who devoted a part of his mammoth theological work Summa Theologica to angels. |
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I sat in on a lesson about Thomas Aquinas where 14-year-olds in a London comprehensive discussed his theory of the proof of God's existence from the argument of First Causes. |
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A Dominican pope declared Thomas Aquinas a doctor of the church in 1568, so it was only natural that a Franciscan pope would name Saint Bonaventure a doctor two decades later. |
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The doctrine of transubstantiation is based, in part, on the writings of Aristotle and Aquinas, who hold that material bodies are composed of accidents and substance. |
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Sorry Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Erasmus you must have been just a bad dream. |
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The rediscovery of the works of Aristotle led Thomas Aquinas and other thinkers to develop the philosophy of Scholasticism. |
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The Areopagitic line of thought then ramifies throughout the great Scholastics, Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas, and into Meister Eckhart. |
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Pinto, whose paper is very much dependent on Alain de Libera's studies on Aquinas and Averroism, seems fond of oversimplified dualisms. |
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When God interrupts nature's normal course, Aquinas explains, this should not be understood as a rescindment of or contradiction of it. |
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According to Aristotle and Aquinas, general natures are rendered particular by the matter which individuates them. |
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It is in this first sense of quoad nos that Aquinas appears to be an heir to the Boethian doctrine. |
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The Italian semiotician and novelist, Umberto Eco, interprets Aquinas much as I implicitly did above, by giving central place to proportion. |
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Fie departed the following year precisely because of disagreements over Suarezian and Molinist interpretations of Aquinas. |
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Fullam provides a clear, reliable, and interesting analysis of the virtue of humility in the writings of Thomas Aquinas. |
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He had learned from Aquinas that grace, even as it sublates nature, always respects nature's proper dynamisms. |
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Thomas Aquinas wrote two large Summas, the Summa Theologica and the Summa Contra Gentiles. |
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On these occasions, Aquinas declared, the utterance constitutes a venial sin because it did not involve rational choice. |
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Thomas Aquinas describes the special honour paid to Mary as hyperdulia, that is, a veneration that exceeds that paid to other saints. |
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Scholastic theologians and philosophers such as the Dominican priest Thomas Aquinas studied and taught at these studia. |
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Systematic theologians include the Scholastic philosophers Anselm, Albertus Magnus, and Thomas Aquinas. |
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During the 13th century Thomas Aquinas adopted the Aristotelian position that the senses are essential to mind into scholasticism. |
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On the other hand, Aquinas forbade the overthrow of any morally, Christianly and spiritually legitimate king by his subjects. |
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The metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas holds that all real beings have both essence and existence. |
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Since the concept can never yield full quidditative knowledge of God then Aquinas must insist that we are joined to God quasi ignoto. |
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Some theologians such as Thomas Aquinas discussed Trajan as an example of a virtuous pagan. |
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Hooker worked largely from Thomas Aquinas, but he adapted scholastic thought in a latitudinarian manner. |
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Thomas Aquinas, a Doctor of the Church, accepted the death penalty as a deterrent and prevention method but not as a means of vengeance. |
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His association with natural law is largely due to the way in which he was interpreted by Thomas Aquinas. |
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In particular, the older natural lawyers, such as Aquinas and John Locke made no distinction between analytic and normative jurisprudence. |
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Historically, this approach is associated mainly with Aristotle or Thomas Aquinas later. |
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Aquinas argues that neither esse belongs to the nature or essence when absolutely considered, though the nature prescinds from neither. |
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Early in his career, he explained how the conceptualist approach misinterprets Aquinas and creates problems for the metaphysics of rational psychology. |
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While Gilson often makes passing references to anachronisms in neo-Scholastic uses of Aquinas, he rarely offers a detailed argument against these authors. |
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Aquinas made a distinction between equivocal, univocal and analogical terms, the last being those like healthy that have different but related meanings. |
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For Aquinas, it was matter that distinguished us as individuals, but for Scotus, each person had its own individual essence or haecceity that made him unique. |
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Aquinas was the student of Albert the Great, a brilliant Dominican experimentalist, much like the Franciscan, Roger Bacon of Oxford in the 13th century. |
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To conclude, either Aquinas is false, or the papists ubiquitaries. |
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Writing as a theologian and not as a scientist, Aquinas was careful to offer this argument from design not as a scientific proof but as a theological argument. |
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The presence of Sigier here has occasioned much critical speculation, since he was an adversary of Aquinas who publically confuted the Averroist ideas Sigier promoted. |
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The philosopher Thomas Aquinas presented five arguments for God's existence in the Summa Theologica, while his Summa contra Gentiles was a major apologetic work. |
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In taking this approach, Aquinas is moved by the conviction that teaching the thought of Aristotle would require changes to the trivium and quadrivium. |
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Thomas Aquinas, the most influential western scholar of the period, integrated the theory of natural law with the notion of an eternal and biblical law. |
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Thomas Aquinas, drew a line between personal faith manifested in theologians and the authoritative faith presented as a matter of judgment by the pope. |
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But Kenny's analysis of how Aquinas individuates thought ironically confuses Aquinas's account with that of Averroes, whose explanation Aquinas rejected. |
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