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

Law
According to the generally accepted definition of St. Thomas Aquinas, an ordinance of reason, framed for the common good, by those who have care of the community as a whole, and promulgated (Summa the...
Life
That mode of existence which involves immanence of agency, whether subjective (in the form of vegetative assimilation and growth) or objective (in the form of sensate or intellectual self-motion).
Logic
The philosophical study of valid argumentation. According to many philosophers, logic is an art insofar as it aims at constructing valid arguments and a science insofar as it aims at a knowledge of th...
Logical
1. Pertaining to logic. 2. In many philosophical texts, a synonym for “mental.” For example, one will speak of “mental” or “logical” relations to refer to what are classically referred to as “relatio...
Love
The appetitive resting in a good, abstracting from presence or absence. Such appetite can be either sensate or intellectual. The presence of the good adds the note of joy; absence adds the note of d...

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