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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

Object
That toward which an inclination, power, or operation of some kind is directed.
Obligation
The moral necessity of performing some action. Such obligation can bind universally in view of the end of virtue (i.e., in view of the natural law or the New Law) or as regards, some particular deter...
Omnipotence
The active power, belonging to God alone, to do whatever is absolutely possible. When this omnipotence is understood in abstraction from the divine wisdom, it is referred to as “absolute power” (pote...
Omnipresence
As an attribute of God, being present to all that exists apart from himself, not as a constitutive part of things or in any way contained therein but as the transcendent and absolutely first efficient...
Omniscience
As an attribute of God, his knowledge of all things which can be, were, are, or will be. In scholastic terminology, such omniscience is distinguished as: “science of simple intelligence or understand...
One
Unity, lack of division. That which is perfectly one cannot be divided in any way. That which is imperfectly one can be divided but is not divided in act. One is a transcendental property of being. He...
Ontological
1. Pertaining to being however it is understood. 2. Pertaining to that which is most fundamental in reality, in some domain of reality, or in a thing. 3. Pertaining to ontology.
Ontology
1. According to those who distinguish ontology from other branches of metaphysics, ontology is the division of metaphysics that studies being as being, prescinding from its causes. Thus defined, it is...
Operation
See Operative Act.
Opinion
In classical logic, intellectual assent based upon reasons, whether extrinsic or intrinsic, providing sufficient evidence to incline the intellect toward one given position over others. In such a sta...

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