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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

Eudaimonism
A system of moral analysis according to which one’s actions are good or bad to the extent that they lead to or away from happiness, with happiness being understood as perfected activity in accord with...
Evidence
That which one takes to provide a reason or motive for a judgment.
Evident
Manifest, clear, true.
Evil
The absence of a due good, i.e., a privation of a good that should be present.
Ex Nihilo
Latin term that can be translated as “out of nothing” or “from nothing,” meaning from no presupposed subject.
Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit
Latin dictum that can be translated as “out of nothing, nothing comes” or “from nothing, nothing comes.”
Exemplary Cause
The form, idea, model, or plan that guides an intelligent efficient cause in producing its effect. E.g., the idea that an author has for the book that he or she writes. Exemplary causality is a speci...
Existence
(in Latin esse).— The act proper to a being that constitutes it as a being and in created realities, posits it outside of its causes.

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