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 ... principles as natural forces , Mithraism deified them as good and evil powers . The universe is merely the ...
... principle , as Greek science on the whole had sought to do . According to Mithraism , two principles are at work in the world ... principles as natural forces , Mithraism deified them as good and evil powers . The universe is merely the ...
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... principles , which enable him to act well according to his power , do not suffice to direct man to this same happiness . Hence it is necessary for man to receive from God some additional principles , by which he may be directed to ...
... principles , which enable him to act well according to his power , do not suffice to direct man to this same happiness . Hence it is necessary for man to receive from God some additional principles , by which he may be directed to ...
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... principles of his thought : " What can be explained on fewer principles is explained needlessly by more . " This maxim , which came to be known as " Occam's razor , " is a most important methodological principle : " Do not multiply ...
... principles of his thought : " What can be explained on fewer principles is explained needlessly by more . " This maxim , which came to be known as " Occam's razor , " is a most important methodological principle : " Do not multiply ...
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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