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Rethinking Anger as a Desire for Payback: A Modified Thomistic View
Religions, 2019 This essay takes a fresh approach to a traditional Western philosophical account of anger, according to which anger is best defined as a desire for payback, namely, a desire to make an offender pay a price, in the currency of unwanted pain, for the pain ...
Jan Rippentrop Schnell +1 more
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Why Aquinas Stopped Commenting on Boethius’s De Trinitate
Studia Gilsoniana, 2020 The article is an attempt to answer the question of why Aquinas stops his commentary on Boethius’s De Trinitate at question six, article four, whereas this is before the point in the treatise where Boethius gets to the heart of the subject matter.
Faustinus Ik. Ugwuanyi
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Francisco Suárez on the Ontological Ground of Logical Possibility
Metaphysics, 2023 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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The Doctrine of State Necessity
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
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The Avicenna’s Contribution to the Natural Law Theory of Aquinas [PDF]
پژوهش تطبیقی حقوق اسلام و غرب, 2015 As discussed by many writers, Natural Law Theory of Aquinas undoubtedly bears a striking affinity with that of Aristotle and also with the Christian theology. This affinity has been followed by neglecting the impact of Islamic philosophy upon Natural Law
Seyed Mohammad Ghari Seyed Fatemi +1 more
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT At its core, transhumanism is utopic and apocalyptic: it tells us we will be saved through an imminent radical change of our being wrought by radical human enhancement (RHE) technologies. We are rushing, its supporters claim, towards a technological utopia so long as assorted techno‐phobes do not stand in the way.
Benjamin N. Parks
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Speculative Unity in Hegel's Restrictive Identity Claim
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Hegel identifies thought with the ‘in itself’ of things. It is common to read the statement as an unrestricted claim regarding Hegel's metaphysical view of reality. I argue it should be read as the expression of what speculative truth achieves.
Ana Vieyra
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An Argument for Minimalism about Action
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Minimalism is the view that the mark of action is object‐causation, rather than intentionality, voluntariness or goal‐directedness. Actions, on this view, are instances of objects causing change. Despite a recent surge of interest in the view, it is still seldom regarded as a serious alternative to orthodox theories of action, according to ...
Robin T. Bianchi
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Girolamo Zanchi on Union with Christ and the Final Judgment
Perichoresis: The Theological Journal of Emanuel University, 2020 Union with Christ was a key doctrine for second-generation Reformed theologian Girolamo Zanchi. As a Thomist, Zanchi shared similar elements with Thomas Aquinas in his understanding of salvation as participatio, but his understanding of union with Christ
Fesko J.V.
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International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.Abstract This article considers John Betz's book Christ, the Logos of Creation as an exercise in the relation of doctrines within Christian systematic theology.
Andrew Davison
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