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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

Speculative
Pertaining to intellectual knowing that immediately aims only at grasping something about the object rather than making or doing.
State
(also called Civil Society, Political Society, Political Community).— The natural perfect society constituted by families and individuals. “State” is sometimes used as a synonym for “government” or go...
Subcontrariety
The logical relationship between a particular affirmative proposition and a particular negative proposition with the same terms. Subcontrary propositions cannot both be false but can both be true. The...
Subject
In scholastic metaphysics, those finite subjects that possesses attributes of some kind or acts in some way. According to modern terminology, the “inward” intelligent and volitional domain of beings...
Sublime
That which provokes a feeling of awe or, in some respect, terror in a person. Some philosophers hold that the sublime is a species of beauty but others deny this. There is a range of views as to wheth...
Subsidiarity
(also called the Principle of Subsidiarity).— The principle according to which higher level societies and institutions should not intervene in matters that that belong, by rights, to the specific comm...
Subsistence
The ordering of substance to independent existence, in distinction from the kind of ordering to existence found in accidents.
Substance
1. Primary Substance (also called First Substance). That which is apt to existence in itself, i.e., apart from other things. The word “substance” used without a modifier typically denotes primary subs...
Superalternation / Subalternation
1. The logical relationship between a universal affirmative proposition (the superalternate) and a particular affirmative proposition (the subalternate) with the same terms, or between a universal neg...
Supposit
An individual substance.

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