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

Proposition
The term in logic for the means by which the second operation of the intellect (i.e., judgment) is attained. More precisely, it is the affirmation or negation of a predicate of a subject. Sometimes a...
Providence
1. God’s ordering of things to their ends. 2. God’s execution of the plan that he has concerning the ordering of things to their ends. Both of these senses are also referred to as “divine government”...
Prudence
(also called Practical Wisdom).— The intellectual and cardinal virtue by which one makes the right decisions about what is to be done in concrete situations (“right reason about things to be done”). I...
Psychology
1. Modern scholastic usage. The division of the philosophy of nature (also called Special Philosophy of Nature) that studies living things, i.e., animated beings, which have souls. It is less often us...

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