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 167
... matter and form is naught else but destruction of all things . And the more subtle and high matter is in kind , the more able it is to receive form and shape . . . . And matter is principle and beginning of distinction , and of ...
... matter and form is naught else but destruction of all things . And the more subtle and high matter is in kind , the more able it is to receive form and shape . . . . And matter is principle and beginning of distinction , and of ...
Page 253
... matter how much pressure the passions put upon us , no matter how bad the habits we have acquired or how long we have let ourselves remain subjected to them , we can always " resist " ; the will , if it so chooses , reamins in control ...
... matter how much pressure the passions put upon us , no matter how bad the habits we have acquired or how long we have let ourselves remain subjected to them , we can always " resist " ; the will , if it so chooses , reamins in control ...
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... matter as the principle of individuation . Thomas ' view seems to undermine the dogma of personal immortality . For if matter individuates , what survives death and the corruption of the body is not this man . Moreover , the notions that ...
... matter as the principle of individuation . Thomas ' view seems to undermine the dogma of personal immortality . For if matter individuates , what survives death and the corruption of the body is not this man . Moreover , the notions that ...
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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