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

General Metaphysics
See ONTOLOGY.
Genus
1. Scholastic usage. A general class of things containing subclasses called species. Whether a given class is considered a genus can be relative. If it contains subclasses but is itself contained in a...
Good
1. That which is desirable; that which is perfective of a thing. 2. Being in a state of perfection either absolutely or in some respect. Thus defined, good is a transcendental property of being. Henc...
Government
The institutional authority by which a state is ruled and whose principal concern is to protect and promote the common good of the political community. The authority in a government most especially i...

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