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Rational Animal
The definition of a human being according to his or her genus (animal) and specific difference (rational); a being possessing a rational or intellectual soul.
Real
1. Pertaining to reality. 2. Together with the definite article (“the real”), a synonym for reality. 3. For most scholastics, the antonym of “mental” or ens rationis.
Realism
The doctrine according to which a world exists independently of us and that we can know it to some extent as it is in itself. Absolute realism is the doctrine, holding that the objects of knowledge e...
Reason
1. Often used as a synonym for intellect. However, strictly speaking, “reason” designates the particular degree of intellectuality had by human knowers, whose cognition is discursive in nature. 2. A...
Reasoning
The third operation of the intellect by which one judges that two judgments, taken together, entail a third judgment. Hence, reasoning arrives at new knowledge from previous knowledge. See REASON.
Relation
1. One of the ten categories of Aristotle, designating that mode of being which is wholly to be directed toward another (ad aliquid). For those scholastics who hold to the existence of real relations,...
Religion
1. The moral virtue that is a part of justice by which one strives to render to God what He is owed, e.g., prayer, devotion, and worship. 2. A system of beliefs and practices that pertain to a divinit...
Rhetoric
That branch of logic which deals with arguments made on behalf of subjects of inquiry that fail to arouse definitive assent in one’s hearers. Often, this is due to the contingency of the matter in qu...
Right
1. Subjective Right. The moral power, supposed to be acknowledged by others, to do, to possess, or to demand something. In modern usage, “right” is often synonymous with subjective right.
Right Reason
Human reason insofar as it makes correct judgments about human conduct or production. As related to human conduct, right reason is reason in conformity with the natural moral law and is the proximate...

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