mobi |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Peter Kreeft [Kreeft, Peter]

SEVENTH ARTICLE Whether Some Good of the Soul Constitutes Man’s Happiness? Objection 3. Further, perfection is something belonging to that which is perfected. But happiness is a perfection of man. ...

epub |eng | 2015-12-03 | Author:John Marenbon

Chapter 6 Universals (Avicenna and Abelard) There is a core question about universals, which perplexed ancient and medieval thinkers, and still exercises philosophers today; they have even borrowed the medieval ...

epub |eng | 2016-11-03 | Author:Michael K. Kellogg

THE EARLY ROMANCES The opening of the first Arthurian romance, Erec and Enide, already strikes a note of decline and discord. Arthur wishes to hunt the white stag in order ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Norman Kretzmann

64 This introduction of Aquinas’s concept of will is based mainly on ST Ia.80.1; for a similar account, different in some important respects, see the earlier QDV 22.4. 65 For ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2014-06-14 | Author:Andrew Cole [Cole, Andrew]

6 On Dialectical Interpretation I dwell in Possibility— EMILY DICKINSON Getting Hegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and Leopold von Ranke to agree on something would be a marvelous occasion. But in ...

epub |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:Gurtler, Gary M.,Stern-Gillet, Suzanne

Love as Abundance The most important question is simply in what sense we may be said to need or desire another. For Aristophanes, the loved one was once near and ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2001-02-21 | Author:Chadwick, Henry [Chadwick, Henry]

The rules of discipline were not casually administered. We (once only) hear of corporal punishment being administered to a young monk found chatting with the nuns at an ‘unfitting hour’. ...

epub |eng | 2013-10-03 | Author:Henry Osborn Taylor [Taylor, Henry Osborn]

II The greatest dialectician of the early twelfth century felt no problems put him by the physical world. That did not attract his inquiry; it did not touch the reasonings ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2006-09-18 | Author:Mary M. Keys [Keys, Mary M.]

All the “objections” Aquinas entertains against this depiction of the social repercussions of individual acts hinge on a surprisingly familiar claim, common in liberal political theory: that some human actions ...

mobi |eng | 2003-05-02 | Author:John Marenbon

(Summa theologiae, Ia, 75, 1) In other words, if bodily things are alive just because they are bodies, all bodily things (e.g. my alarm clock) would be alive, which they ...

epub |eng | 2010-04-28 | Author:Anthony Kenny [Kenny, Anthony]

Hobbes Of those who had been invited to comment on Descartes’ Meditations in 1641, the most distinguished was Thomas Hobbes, the foremost English philosopher of the age. At that time ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-05-07 | Author:Julian Young

ART AND PHILOSOPHY If one seeks to refute Plato’s denigration of art by describing it in the terms which he reserves for philosophy one runs the risk of obliterating the ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-04-24 | Author:Boethius

‘Whoever deeply searches out the truth And will not be decoyed down false by-ways, Shall turn unto himself his inward gaze, Shall bring his wandering thoughts in circle home (5) ...