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

Ultimate / Proximate
Terms for a relationship between causes (or principles, norms, classes, etc.) and that which they determine such that the causes qualified as “proximate” are intermediate between the things determined...
Understanding
(also called Simple Apprehension).— 1. The first operation of the intellect by which one apprehends the nature of a thing and, consequently, produces a concept of it. 2. The intellectual virtue by whi...
Universal
An essence regarded as common to many things or apt to be so. It can be considered in three ways: (a) as it is in itself, e.g., one can consider “rational animal” in itself and apart from its existenc...
Universal Affirmative Proposition
A categorical proposition that affirms that the predicate applies to the whole of the subject. It can be formally expressed as “Every S is P” with “S” standing for the subject and “P” for the predicat...
Universal Negative Proposition
A categorical proposition that denies that the predicate applies to any of the subject. It can be formally expressed as “No S is P” with “S” standing for the subject and “P” standing for the predicate...
Use / Mention
A distinction in contemporary philosophy between a word being intended to refer to something apart from itself (use) and its being intended to refer to itself (mention). The convention has been adopte...
Utilitarianism
A system of moral analysis according to which actions are good to the extent that they tend to promote the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people and bad to the extent that they tend to p...

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