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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

Pantheism
The doctrine according to which God and creation are identical. Thus, everything that exists would be divine or some aspect of the divine.
Participation
Possessing some reality or attribute in a limited way. E.g., creatures possess existence in a limited way and not in the unlimited way in which God possesses it. Creatures, thus, have existence by par...
Particular Affirmative Proposition
A categorical proposition that affirms that the predicate applies to some of the subject. Whether the predicate applies to more than some of the subject is left open. It can be formally expressed as “...
Particular Negative Proposition
A categorical proposition that denies that the predicate applies to some of the subject. Whether the predicate applies to none of the subject is left open. It can be formally expressed as “Some S is n...
Passion
(also called Emotion).— A movement of the sense appetite in response to a particular, concrete good apprehended by the estimative or cogitative sense power, which consider the known object under aspec...
Patient
That which is affected by the efficient causality of an agent and, hence, the subject of a change. E.g., a tree that is struck by an ax wielded by a lumberjack.
Per Accidens
Latin term that can be translated as “accidentally,” “by accident,” or “not essentially.”
Per Se
Latin term that can be translated as “by itself,” “through itself,” or, in some cases, as “essentially.”
Perfection
1. Ontologically understood, a state of being complete, i.e., not lacking in what is required by a nature; self-sufficiency. 2. Morally understood, being in a state or consistently living in a way tha...
Person
According to the generally accepted definition of Boethius, a person is an individual substance of a rational or intellectual nature. The notion of person is subject to analogical differences dependi...

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