The Medieval MindContent: New Religious Orientation - Christianity: the Formative years - Augustine: God the Creator - Augustine: the Created Universe - Medieval interval - Thomas: Metaphysics - Thomas: Psychology, ethics, Politics - End of the Middle ages. |
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Page 206
... existence of the God of whose existence he was already assured by faith - turned out to be anything but simple . As long as philosophers were not sufficiently acute to see the complex questions that the attempt to prove God's existence ...
... existence of the God of whose existence he was already assured by faith - turned out to be anything but simple . As long as philosophers were not sufficiently acute to see the complex questions that the attempt to prove God's existence ...
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... existence of objects not immediately accessible to perception . But unless one can show that it is absolutely impossible to account for the effect in any other way , the conclusion of this kind of argument is only probable . And to rule ...
... existence of objects not immediately accessible to perception . But unless one can show that it is absolutely impossible to account for the effect in any other way , the conclusion of this kind of argument is only probable . And to rule ...
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... existence . Though it is true that , in both , essence and existence are indissolubly joined , they can be thought of separately in the case of finite being . That is , there is a formal distinction between the essence and the existence ...
... existence . Though it is true that , in both , essence and existence are indissolubly joined , they can be thought of separately in the case of finite being . That is , there is a formal distinction between the essence and the existence ...
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Abelard according actually animal argument Aristotle Aristotle's Augustine Augustine's authority Bacon believed body called cause century Christ Christian Church City of God conceived conception course created creature distinction divine doctrine Donatists Duns Duns's Empire essence eternal ethics evil existence experience fact faith Father finite follows Gnostics God's grace Greek held Hence human Ibid individual instance intellect Jesus Jesus movement Jews kind knowledge live Lord man's Manichees matter means medieval merely metaphysical Middle Ages mind Mithraism moral moved movement mystic nature Neoplatonism notion object Occam orthodoxy particular Paul Pelagians perfect philosophical Plato Plotinus point of view possible principle problem Ques question rational reality reason salvation seems sense Socrates soul spirit substance Summa Contra Gentiles Summa Theologica Thee theology theory things Thomas Thomistic Thou thought truth understand universe unmoved mover virtue whole words Yahweh