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

General Metaphysics
See ONTOLOGY.
Good
1. That which is desirable; that which is perfective of a thing. 2. Being in a state of perfection either absolutely or in some respect. Thus defined, good is a transcendental property of being. Henc...
Immutability
Not being subject to change.
In Se
Latin term that can be translated as “in itself.”
Incommunicable
Incapable of having something in common with another or of being transferred to another.
Individuality
The way of being found in bodily beings, such that the nature of that being is contracted by the dimensive conditions of materiality found in that being.
Infinity
Negatively: limitlessness, being without limits. Positively: wholly actual (having no potency).
Metaphysics
1. The philosophical study of being as being, i.e., being as such or considered in itself, and its causes. 2. The philosophical study of first principles (sometimes called, in later scholasticism, “cr...
Natural Theology
(also called Philosophical Theology).— The division of metaphysics that studies God, His attributes (or “names”), and His causal activity, insofar as all of these can be known by reason alone. Someti...
Necessity
That which cannot be otherwise or is unlikely to be otherwise.

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