Francisco Suárez on the Ontological Ground of Logical Possibility
This article reassesses Suárez’s claim that real essences are intrinsically logically possible. (Henceforth, this claim is referred to as ‘ILP.’) Most scholars have understood ILP as asserting the independence of logical possibility from God’s power; on ...
Nicholas Westberg
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Thomas Aquinas and Francisco Suárez on Possible Being
In this article I consider the problematic that creation ex nihilo presents for Christian metaphysicans’ speculation regarding possible being. I explore Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of possibility and show that, while he attempts to remain faithful to a ...
Victor Salas
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On the Knowledge of God and the Metaphysics of Aquinas [PDF]
Thomas Aquinas argues in his seminal work, the Summa Theologiae, that one can come to know the existence of God through rational argumentation alone. As a theologian writing a work of theology, he makes his demonstrations concerning God’s existence from ...
Green, Tom
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Development and Validation of the Prosocial Behavior in School Scale
ABSTRACT This study reports on the development, factor structure, and validity indicators of the Prosocial Behavior in School Scale (PBSS) among 4264 sixth‐ to eighth‐grade students in the United States. The final PBSS is a 12‐item self‐report measure of students' prosocial behavior in a specific classroom.
Christi Bergin +5 more
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Barriers in Concurrent Separation Logic: Now With Tool Support! [PDF]
We develop and prove sound a concurrent separation logic for Pthreads-style barriers. Although Pthreads barriers are widely used in systems, and separation logic is widely used for verification, there has not been any effort to combine the two.
Aquinas Hobor, Cristian Gherghina
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Contemplating Procession: Thomas Aquinas’ Analogy of the Procession of the Word in the Immanent Divine Life [PDF]
Thomas Aquinas’ Trinitarian theology has been criticized as proposing an abstract notion of God that is divorced from salvation history and that is supported by tedious and ultimately incomprehensible explication.
Waltman, Josh
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De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
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Virtuous Organizations in the Age of AI: Relational Goods and Human Flourishing
ABSTRACT The integration of AI‐based systems in everyday work has given rise to augmented organizations, transforming traditional work paradigms and prompting new research questions concerning augmented work processes and their related ethical issues. Drawing upon the practice‐institution framework proposed by Alasdair MacIntyre, integrated with Donati'
Francesco Vincenzo Giarmoleo +3 more
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Dialectic and narrative in Aquinas; The soul as virgin wife; On evil (3 books) [PDF]
Reviewed Book: Hibbs, Thomas S. Dialectic and narrative in Aquinas: an interpretation of the Summa contra gentiles. [S.l.]: Univ of Notre Dame Pr, 1995. Hollywood, Amy.
Erb, Peter C.
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Romano Guardini and Cornelio Fabro on Kierkegaard's Christian Humanism
Abstract This article examines how Søren Kierkegaard's theological anthropology furnished resources for reconstructing Christian humanism among mid‐twentieth‐century Catholic thinkers. Focusing on Romano Guardini (1885‐1968) in Germany and Cornelio Fabro (1911‐1995) in Italy, I demonstrate how each thinker creatively appropriated Kierkegaard's ...
Joshua Furnal
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