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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... truth as well as we can , bearing in mind on the one hand that God would not have given us reason had He not intended us to use it , and on the other hand that reason is feeble and that it is the worst kind of pride to suppose ourselves ...
... truth as well as we can , bearing in mind on the one hand that God would not have given us reason had He not intended us to use it , and on the other hand that reason is feeble and that it is the worst kind of pride to suppose ourselves ...
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... truth than reason in its turn could have on revelation and faith . Occam was well on his way to the double - truth doctrine of the Averroists , 19 which held theological truth and rational truth , like Kipling's East and West , to be ...
... truth than reason in its turn could have on revelation and faith . Occam was well on his way to the double - truth doctrine of the Averroists , 19 which held theological truth and rational truth , like Kipling's East and West , to be ...
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... truth . The relativist need not hold that all judgments are relative ; it is possible , for instance , to hold that the physical sciences yield absolute truth while maintaining that in other fields ( for example , ethics and religion ) ...
... truth . The relativist need not hold that all judgments are relative ; it is possible , for instance , to hold that the physical sciences yield absolute truth while maintaining that in other fields ( for example , ethics and religion ) ...
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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