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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

Simplicity
Lack of parts in some way or absolutely.
Skepticism
The doctrine according to which we cannot have certitude about anything and, therefore, must suspend our judgment in all matters.
Society
A stable union of individuals or groups morally bound to each other, who cooperate to achieve a common goal or good under the guidance of some structure of authority.
Soul
The first principle of life in living things; the first act of a body capable of life.
Soundness
The quality of an argument having validity and only true premises.
Sources of Morality
The principles that determine whether a human action is in conformity with the natural moral law. These include the moral object (what is immediately and essentially attained by the moral act itself),...
Special Ethics
In modern scholastic usage, the division of moral philosophy that studies morality as concerning human relationships. Hence, various kinds of “special” ethics focus on rights and society in their vari...
Special Metaphysics
In rationalist divisions of philosophy, those branches of (rationalist) metaphysics that study specific domains of “ontology”: the human self or psyche (rational psychology); the world (cosmology); Go...
Species
1. Scholastic usage (logic). A class of things contained in a genus possessing some attribute called the “specific difference” that distinguishes it from other species contained in the genus. E.g., “r...
Specific Difference
That attribute of a species that distinguishes it from other species contained in a genus. E.g., “rational” is the specific difference possessed by human beings that distinguishes them from other spec...

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