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

Freedom
1. Immunity from constraint. 2. Absolute or relative independence. 3. Self-determination in relation to a finite and contingent good.
Immortality
The ability to live forever; the incorruptibility of a living thing.
Intellect
(also called Mind and Reason).— 1. A spiritual cognitive power. 2. The natural spiritual cognitive power by which human beings understand, judge, and reason.
Mental
1. Pertaining to the mind. 2. Sometimes improperly used to refer to beings of reason (entia rationis) or relations of reason (relationes rationis).
Mind
Often used as a synonym for intellect, although sometimes the term is used to designate a combination of both intellect and will. The Latin word mens is sometimes correlative to the Greek term nous,...
Natural Light of Reason
The natural power that reason or the intellect has to know as contrasted to the power to know intrinsically supernatural realities by way of the theological virtue of faith.
Person
According to the generally accepted definition of Boethius, a person is an individual substance of a rational or intellectual nature. The notion of person is subject to analogical differences dependi...
Reason
1. Often used as a synonym for intellect. However, strictly speaking, “reason” designates the particular degree of intellectuality had by human knowers, whose cognition is discursive in nature. 2. A...
Will
(also called Intellectual Appetite or Rational Appetite).— The spiritual appetite that is directly moved by what the intellect apprehends as good (whether apparently or really).

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