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SOME ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY ATHEISM AND ST. THOMAS AQUINA [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2010 Atheism has become fashionable in the recent years. It has diff erent forms, but in many cases starts from the presupposition that the only rational approach is the one of natural sciences. Believers have the duty to provide some answers to the atheists,
CH. MOREROD
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En torno a dos lecturas posibles sobre el conocimiento de las esencias en Tomás de Aquino
Tópicos, 2013 This paper aims to expose two possible views about knowledge of essences in Thomas Aquinas. On the one hand there is the critique of knowledge of philosopher Jacques Maritain, who will question that man’s access to the essences of things would be as ...
Ceferino P. D. Muñoz
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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Suárez on the Contingency of Causal Origin
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Do individuals have their actual causal origins necessarily? Or could one and the same individual also have had a causal origin other than its actual one? Late medieval and early modern Aristotelians confront this question in the course of their discussions of the metaphysics of causation. In this paper, I discuss and evaluate Francisco Suárez'
Han Thomas Adriaenssen
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A Collapse Result in the Mereology of Properties
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I examine five principles about the metaphysics of properties, each of which has been defended in the literature: (1) the sum of properties is their corresponding conjunctive property, (2) the mereology of properties is classical, (3) properties are individuated by necessary co‐instantiation, (4) sums of objects belonging to different ...
Alejandro G. Di Rienzo
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Important Socio-Ethical Criteria for Forming Judgement and Subsequent Action in Biomedical Research
Astra Salvensis, 2020 Since the ethical assessment of human action in biomedical fields of conflict depends on several criteria, we try in this work to follow the analysis of the Freiburg moralist Schockenhoff. Indeed, the ethically relevant context in which our actions are
Inocent-Mária Vladimír SZANISZLÓ OP
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Obesity and the Politics of Taddeo di Bartolo's Inferno
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines Taddeo di Bartolo's depiction of Hell in the Collegiata di Santa Maria Assunta, the mother church of San Gimignano. In a striking departure from similar scenes of the period, the fresco, painted in the early fifteenth century, emphasizes the obesity of the sinners—suggesting a deliberate visual critique.
Stefania Roccas Gandal
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Moral Living from the Perspective of Thomas Aquinas [PDF]
International Journal of Ethics and SocietyIntroduction: Ethical living is a lifestyle in which all areas of human existence and work are formed and flow around ethics. That is, a person who wants to live morally, in all areas, tries to know the ethical considerations related to that area and ...
Michael Makariev +2 more
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Temenos, 2009 This essay supplements the recent literature on the social construction of ‘religion’ by demonstrating that liberal discourses on the ‘private sphere’ and the ‘separation of church and state’ originated in a rhetorical slippage between different uses of ...
Craig Martin
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Development and Validation of the Prosocial Behavior in School Scale
Psychology in the Schools, Volume 63, Issue 6, Page 1001-1019, June 2026.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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