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

Sense Appetite
(also called Sensitive Appetite).— The appetitive power in animals (including rational animals) that is moved or actualized by the perception of the external senses and internal senses. Passions are t...
Sense Memory
(also called Sensitive Memory).— The internal sense by which one retains the perceptions of the external senses, and most importantly the images (or “phantasms”) formed by the estimative or cogitative...
Soul
The first principle of life in living things; the first act of a body capable of life.
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...
Teleology
See Final Cause.
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...

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