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The Ontology of Property and Stewardship

open access: yesJournal of Social Ontology
The paper explains the original establishment of property by the creationist account. Still, it shows that creationists cannot account for non-creatable things as property without collapsing into the labor-mixing account. Non-creatables, however, can be
Francis Cheneval
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Science Said. Relationships between Science, Reason and Faith

open access: yesScientia et Fides, 2013
After a description of the method of mathematics and empirical sciences, brief but explicit enough to show their limits with philosophical and theological reflection, I comment the harmonic relations of mutual help among them, and also, unfortunately ...
Ignacio Sols
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The Interaction of Noetic and Psychosomatic Operations in a Thomist Hylomorphic Anthropology

open access: yesScientia et Fides, 2018
This article, the second of a two-part essay, outlines a solution to certain tensions in Thomist philosophical anthropology concerning the interaction of the human person’s immaterial intellectual or noetic operations with the psychosomatic sensory ...
Daniel De Haan
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Football, Mysticism, Thomistic Poetics

open access: yesModern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 63-81, January 2024.
Abstract This essay will especially consider the role of the cogitative power and affectivity in the formation of vocal utterances, showing how the Thomistic account of the integration of passion with reason provides a fascinating apparatus for assessing different uses of language—from the Eucharistic hymns of Aquinas, to the poetry of his Franciscan ...
Jose Isidro Belleza
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The Modal Status of Generative Principles

open access: yesMetaphysics
This contribution to a symposium marking the 30th anniversary of Kit Fine’s “Essence and Modality” raises a general question for essentialist theories of modality: What sort of proposition can figure in the essence of a property? Several versions of Fine’
Gideon Rosen
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The Cosmos as a World City: A Hylomorphic Foundation for Civic Renewal

open access: yesReligions
This paper contends that the West’s civic crisis is, at root, a cosmological crisis: civic renewal requires metaphysical repair. It is insufficient to endorse virtue ethics and demand civic virtues without a deeper account of reality that can sustain ...
William M. R. Simpson
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Hylomorphic Teleology in Aristotle’s Physics II

open access: yesStudia Gilsoniana, 2019
This study draws attention to the ordering of matter and form argued for in Aristotle’s Physics II, 8 (199a30–32). This argument for hylomorphic teleology relies on the presentation of nature earlier in Physics II, 1.
Catherine Peters
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Definition and the Epistemology of Natural Kinds in Aristotle

open access: yesMetaphysics, 2018
We have reason to think that a fundamental goal of natural science, on Aristotle’s view, is to discover the essence-specifying definitions of natural kinds—with biological species as perhaps the most obvious case.
Nathanael Stein
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Aristotélisme et christologie au XIII-ème siècle. Le problème du corps du Christ dans les derniers écrits de saint Thomas d’Aquin [PDF]

open access: yesMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the problem of the relationship between Aristotelianism and Christology in the XIII-th century, as it appears through the famous problem of the body of Christ dead. This problem, which divided the Latin theologians
Cristian Moisuc
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