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Page 115
... necessary for sustenance . But here , God in His wisdom has created a further hazard for us . We might enjoy even the modest minimum necessary to sustain the body . This , as it were , subsidiary pleasure ought to be extirpated if at ...
... necessary for sustenance . But here , God in His wisdom has created a further hazard for us . We might enjoy even the modest minimum necessary to sustain the body . This , as it were , subsidiary pleasure ought to be extirpated if at ...
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... necessary objects of will . Thomas ' conclusion was that though we will some things necessarily ( the supreme good and , indeed , any good experienced without conflict or complication ) , we do not will most things necessarily . " The ...
... necessary objects of will . Thomas ' conclusion was that though we will some things necessarily ( the supreme good and , indeed , any good experienced without conflict or complication ) , we do not will most things necessarily . " The ...
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... necessary being . If its cause was a neces- sary being , the desired conclusion follows immediately — there is a necessary being . If its cause was another contingent being , this being in its turn must have been produced either by a ...
... necessary being . If its cause was a neces- sary being , the desired conclusion follows immediately — there is a necessary being . If its cause was another contingent being , this being in its turn must have been produced either by a ...
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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