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

Cosmology
(also called General Philosophy of Nature).— 1. Modern scholastic usage. The division of the philosophy of nature that studies bodies or mobile beings in general. Some modern scholastics treated cosm...
Courage
(also called Bravery and Fortitude).— The moral and cardinal virtue by which one is disposed to face danger or difficulty when doing so is judged to be warranted by right reason, thereby introducing t...
Creation
1. The action of bringing something into existence absolutely, i.e., out of nothing (ex nihilo). Properly understood, creation so defined does not imply that there is no efficient cause of the things...
Creator
The absolutely first efficient cause of all that exists apart from itself; the agent whose action is creation, i.e., God. The divine name “Creator” is a subordinate divine name, only applying to God...
Creature
That which is brought into existence by the action of creation. It is of the nature of creatures to be contingent and therefore non-necessary.

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