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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... principle , as Greek science on the whole had sought to do . According to Mithraism , two principles are at work in the world . One of these is responsible for all the good that occurs , the elements of order in the universe ; the other ...
... principle , as Greek science on the whole had sought to do . According to Mithraism , two principles are at work in the world . One of these is responsible for all the good that occurs , the elements of order in the universe ; the other ...
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... principle , beginning with the Absolute , produces the next lower principle , each lower principle being , insofar as its lower nature permits , the imitation of the higher . These doctrines may be illustrated with a few passages from ...
... principle , beginning with the Absolute , produces the next lower principle , each lower principle being , insofar as its lower nature permits , the imitation of the higher . These doctrines may be illustrated with a few passages from ...
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... principle of contradiction is the only certain principle , and it merely states that a given object cannot have contradictory properties ( A and not - A ) at the same time . There is nothing , of course , that prevents different things ...
... principle of contradiction is the only certain principle , and it merely states that a given object cannot have contradictory properties ( A and not - A ) at the same time . There is nothing , of course , that prevents different things ...
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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