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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

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Moral and Political Philosophy Aesthetics Christology Ecclesiology Epistemology Human Person Logic Metaphysics Moral Theology Philosophy of Nature

Capital Grace
The habitual, created grace of Christ inasmuch as it is communicated by Christ the Head of the Church to the members of His Mystical Body. Because of the fullness of this grace, every grace received...
Categories
(also called Predicaments) 1. In Aristotelian philosophy, the supreme or ultimate genera or most general classes of being. There are ten: substance and nine accidents. The accidents are: quantity, qua...
Causal
Pertaining to causes.
Cause
That upon which something depends in some way for being; the reason for something.
Certitude
(also called Certainty).— 1. Subjective Certitude. A firm assent of the intellect.
Change
A modification in a thing; the actualization of some potency possessed by a thing.
Cogitative Sense
(also called Cogitative Power, Cogitative Faculty, and Particular Reason).— The estimative power in human beings. Like the estimative power in non-human animals, it is the power to judge whether what...
Cognitive
Pertaining to the power to know, whether sensibly or intellectually.
Common Good
The good pursued by a society and which, in some respect, perfects it. Considered from a causal perspective, the common good is a final cause. The common good is an end that is qualitatively distinct...
Common Sense
1. The internal sense by which one is aware that one is perceiving things, is able to distinguish the various senses, and unify the various objects of the external senses. 2. Knowledge of the first se...

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