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

Simpliciter
Latin term that can be translated as “simply,” “absolutely,” or “unqualifiedly.”
Simplicity
Lack of parts in some way or absolutely.
Special Metaphysics
In rationalist divisions of philosophy, those branches of (rationalist) metaphysics that study specific domains of “ontology”: the human self or psyche (rational psychology); the world (cosmology); Go...
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...
Subsistence
The ordering of substance to independent existence, in distinction from the kind of ordering to existence found in accidents.
Supposit
An individual substance.
Temporal
Pertaining to time.
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...

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