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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

Taste
1. One’s preferences in aesthetic matters. 2. The ability to make good judgments in aesthetic matters.
Teleology
See Final Cause.
Temperance
(also called Moderation).— The moral and cardinal virtue by which one pursues or abstains from pleasure to the extent determined by right reason.
Temporal
Pertaining to time.
Term
In logic, the product of the first operation of the intellect, i.e., the concept. The term is the subject or predicate of a proposition, especially as part of syllogistic reasoning.
Theism
As a doctrine, it holds that one God exists who created and governs the world.
Theodicy
1. The philosophical attempt to defend God’s goodness and providence against the actual or possible doubts that arise on account of evil in the world. 2. In rationalist divisions of philosophical disc...
Thing
1. Being (ens) considered as possessing an essence. So defined, it is a transcendental property of being. Hence, every being is a thing insofar as it has an essence. 2. A term that can be used interch...
Time
The measure of a being in motion according to the “before” and “after” involved in this motion. As such, the measurement of time presupposes a mind that can consider a motion as a single unit and the...
Transcendent
1. Being beyond some particular thing or beyond some domain of reality. 2. Being beyond all finite beings.

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