| Foreword |
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| PART I: AN INTRODUCTION TO THEOLOGY |
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| Chapter 1. THEOLOGICAL TRAINING |
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| a. The need for doctrinal formation: a consequence of our divine vocation |
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| b. Reasons for this study |
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| c. A special reason |
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| d. Content of Theological Study |
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| Chapter 2. THEOLOGY AS A SCINECE |
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| a. The object of theology |
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| b. Source of theological knowledge: divine revelation |
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| c. The believer uses reason in theology |
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| Chapter 3. THE PHILOSOPHICAL EXERCISE OF REASON AS INSTRUMENT OF THEOLOGY |
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| a. Spontaneous knowledge and philosophical knowledge |
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| b. Continuity of all knowledge |
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| c. Historical origin of theology: Christian Philosophy |
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| Part II: INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY |
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| Chapter 4. DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOSOPHY IN CHRISTIANITY |
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| a. Beginning of theology in Christianity |
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| b. The original synthesis of St. Thomas Aquinas |
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| c. Continuity of Christian Philosophy |
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| Chapter 5. DISPOSITION OF THE CHRISTIAN TOWARD PHILOSOPHY |
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| a. God and the natural truths of religion |
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| b. Philosophy and the truths of the natural order |
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| c. Christian Philosophy as a common cultural heritage |
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| d. The help of faith not against the use of the intelligence |
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| Chapter 6. THE NATURE OF PHILOSOPHY |
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| a. History and etymology of the term |
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| b. Wisdom as knowledge of ultimate causes |
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| c. A wise man order everything in relation to God |
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| d. Wisdom as science |
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| e. Philosophy and the orther sciences |
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| Chapter 7. METAPHYSICS OOR FIRST PHILOSOPHY |
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| a. The Science of being as being |
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| b. Substance and accidents, potentiality and actuality |
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| c. Matter and form |
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| d. God as the universao cause of being: essence and the act of being |
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| e. The properties of being |
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| f. Metaphysics and theology |
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| Chapter 8. OTHER ASPECTS OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY AND THEIR THEOLOGICAL RELEVANCE |
| a. Metaphysics of man and science of man |
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| b. Particular sciences are in need of metaphysics |
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| c. Theological relevance of the metaphysics of nature |
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| d. Metaphysics and logic |
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| Chapter 9. THE METHOD OF METAPHYSICS |
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| a. Philosophy begins with wonder |
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| b. Science as the search for the universal and necessary |
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| c. Intelligence and senses |
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| d. Intellectual and sensible certainty |
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| e. Intelligence and imagination |
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| Chapter 10. THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY |
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| a. Metaphysics and truth |
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| b. Cultural relativism |
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| Part III. METAPHYSICS |
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| Chapter 11. GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO METAPHYSICS |
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| a. Metaphysics: the science of being as being |
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| b. The object of metaphysics |
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| c. Being is analogical |
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| d. The principle of non-contradiction |
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| e. Importance of metaphysics for theology |
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| Chapter 12. THE STARTING POINT OF THE METAPHYSICAL ROAD |
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| a. Being, to be, essence, existance |
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| b. The starting point of metaphysics |
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| c. Metaphysical progress |
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| Chapter 13. SUBSTANCE AND ACCIDENTS |
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| a. The evidence of change and the truth about being |
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| b. The notion of being applies primarily to substance |
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| c. Accidents: secondary manners of being |
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| d. Substance and accidents related in three ways |
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| e. The "inese" of the accidents |
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| f. Particular importance of relation |
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| Chapter 14. POTENCY AND ACT |
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| a. Simplicity of these concepts, gathered from the experience of change |
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| b. Motion as passage from potency to act |
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| c. Other metaphysical insights of potency and act |
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| Chapter 15. THE ESSENCE |
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| a. Elucidation of terms: seence, nature, concept, defination |
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| b. Essence and form |
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| c. The principle of individuation |
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| Chapter 16. THE ACT OF BEING AND THE ESSENCE |
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| a. Ultimate structure of the finite subsistent |
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| b. Predicamental and transcendental participation |
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| c. The participation of being as basis of the analogy of being |
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| d. Subsistent subject and person: activity follows being |
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| e. Individual and person |
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| Chapter 17. THE ACTIVITY OF CREATED BEING |
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| a. Esse and nature as priciples of activity |
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| b. Application to the value of human life |
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| c. Beings act according to their nature |
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| d. Activity as the perfection of being: idleness and work |
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| e. Transient and immanent actions |
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| Chapter 18. BEING AND CAUSALITY |
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| a. Elucidation of terms |
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| b. Origin of the concept of cause: the four causes |
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| c. Material cause and formal cause: theological relevance |
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| d. The efficient cause: creation and causality |
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| e. The instrumental cause |
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| f. The final cause: cause of all cause |
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| g. Direction to end; freedom and love; the order of the universe |
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| h. Importance of the principle of causality |
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| Chapter 19. TRANSCENDENTAL PROPERTIES OF BEING |
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| a. Predicamental classification of essences and transcendental vision of being |
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| b. Metaphysical discovery of the transcendentals |
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| c. The unity of being |
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| d. The truth of being |
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| e. The goodness of being |
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| f. The common good: law and justice |
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| g. Evil as the absence of good |
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| h. The beauty of being |
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| Chapter 20. CONCLUDING REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS |
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| a. The analogy of being and our knowledge of God |
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| b. Natural and supernatural wisdom |
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| Part IV: NATURAL THEOLOGY |
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| Chapter 21. GOD IS |
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| a. Man can know God: natural and supernatural knowledge |
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| b. Natural theology as highest achievement of metaphysics |
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| c. Philosophy cannot ignore God |
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| d. Reason is led to God |
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| e. Reason not the only factor in our knowledge of God |
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| f. Agnosticism is unreasonable |
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| g. Importance of the rational demonstration of God's existence |
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| h. Limits of the human knowledge of God |
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| i. The problem of atheism |
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| j. The principle of immanence |
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| Chapter 22. WAYS OF DEMONSTRATING THE EXISTENCE OF GOD |
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| a. Elucidation of terms |
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| b. The first way: motion |
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| c. The second way: activity |
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| d. The third way: generation and corruption |
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| e. The fourth way: perfection ( a summary of metaphysics) |
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| f. The fifth way: order and intelligency |
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| Chapter 23. GOD IS IPSUM ESSE SUBSISTENS |
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| a. The essence of God |
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| b. The simplicity of God |
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| c. The transcendence of God |
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| d. The supreme goodness of God |
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| e. How God should be loved |
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| f. Immensity, immutability, eternity |
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| Chapter 24. DIVINE OPERATION |
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| a. God is personal |
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| b. Divine knowledge |
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| c. Divine will: God is love |
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| d. Divine omnipotence |
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| e. God as creator |
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| f. God's presence everywhere |
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| g. Divine freedom and providence |
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| PART V. METAPHYSICS OF MAN |
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| Chapter 25. INTRODUCTION |
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| a. Recapitulation: metaphysics as comprehensive knowledge |
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| b. Object of the metaphysics of man |
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| c. Spirit and matter: social sciences and physical sciences |
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| d. Order and method of this study |
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| e. Man as spiritual and corporeal creature |
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| f. Human activity |
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| Chapter 26. INTELLIGENCE |
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| a. Overview |
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| b. Nature and object of the intelligence |
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| c. Process of understanding |
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| Chapter 27. SIMPLE APPREHENSION |
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| a. Understanding begins in the senses |
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| b. Abstraction: from the sensible to the intelligible |
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| c. Impression of the intelligible form on the intellect |
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| d. The act of understanding |
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| e. Characteristics of human concept |
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| f. Knowledge of the singular |
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| Chapter 28. JUDGMENT |
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| a. The operation of judging |
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| b. Judgment and truth |
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| c. Certainty and belief |
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| d. Discursive process of reasoning |
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| e. Self - knowledge, consciousness and reflection |
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| f. Conclusion: knowledge as enrichment of being |
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| Chapter 29. THE WILL |
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| a. Nature and object of the will. The emontions |
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| b. The good of man |
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| c. The will and the last end |
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| d. Natural inclination of the will as distinct from actual choice |
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| e. Will and intelligence |
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| f. Causality of the act of the will |
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| g. The will and human behavior |
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| Chapter 30. FREEDOM |
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| a. What is freedom |
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| b. Inner freedom and exterior freedom |
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| c. Freedom of choice: determinism |
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| d. The root of the freedom of man |
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| e. Freedom and necessity |
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| f. Freedom and the good |
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| g. Free volition of evil |
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| Chapter 31: THE HUMAN SOUL |
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| a. Spirituality of the human soul |
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| b. The soul as substantial form of the body: no reincarnation |
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| c. The spiritual perfection of man |
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| d. Origin of the human soul |
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| e. Immortality of the human soul |
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| Chapter 32. THE PERSON AND HUMAN NATURE |
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| a. Nature as individuated |
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| b. Person and personality |
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| c. The place of the person in the uinverse |
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| Chapter 33. MAN IN THE WORLD |
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| a. The social nature of man |
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| b. Natural societies |
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| c. Man and history |
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| d. Human work |
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| e. The santification of work |
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| f. Participation in divine action |
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| Appendix: CATHOLIC DOCTRINE ABOUT MAN |
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| Part VI. ETHICS |
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| Chapter 34. INTRODUCTION |
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| a. Metaphysics of the end and of the moral order |
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| b. Free actions |
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| c. Ethics as part of metaphysics |
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| d. Ethical science and moral uprightness |
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| e. Order of this study |
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| Chapter 35. GOOD AND EVIL |
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| a. The good |
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| b. Participated beings have a good end or purpose |
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| c. The final good moves beings |
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| d. Evil as privation |
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| e. Evil as deodination |
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| f. Evil and freedom |
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| g. Evil as such can neither move nor motivate |
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| h. Physical evil |
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| i. It is imposible for God to be the cause of evil |
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| Chapter 36. THE LAST END |
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| a. Existence of a last end |
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| b. Identification of the last end |
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| c. Natural last end and supernatural last end |
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| d. Possession of the last end: happiness |
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| Chapter 37. THE COMMON GOD |
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| a. Proper good and common good |
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| b. The common good of mankind |
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| c. Love with order |
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| d. The false philosophies |
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| e. Ordination of beings to the common good |
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| f. The common good shared in the order of the universe |
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| g. Ordination of each single substance to the common good |
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| h. Direct ordination of spiritual beings to the common good |
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| Chapter 38. MORAL LAW AND CONSCIENCE |
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| a. Eternal law and moral law |
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| b. Characteristics of the natural law |
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| c. Knowledge of the natural law |
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| d. Content of the natural law |
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| e. Moral sanction |
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| f. Conscience |
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| g. Principles guiding conscience |
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| Chapter 39. MORAL ACTS |
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| a. Will and freedom |
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| b. Goodness and malice of human acts |
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| c. Moral evil or sin |
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| d. Types of sins |
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| e. Effects of sin |
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| f. Virtues |
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| g. Types of virtues |
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| Chapter 40. SOCIETY AND THE COMMON GOOD |
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| a. Interrelations among men |
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| b. Friendship and the love of God |
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| c. What is society? |
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| d. History and culture |
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| e. Ordering of intermediate societies to civil society |
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| f. Ordering of the person to the common good of society |
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| g. Peace and war |
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| Chapter 41. THE FAMILY |
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| a. The nature of marriage |
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| b. The common good of the family |
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| c. Fundamental properties of marriage |
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| d. Marriage and celibacy |
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| Chapter 42. GOVERNMENT, AUTHORITY AND LAWS |
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| a. Government and politics |
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| b. Authorities and obedience |
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| c. Positive law |
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| Chapter 43. RIGHTS AND JUSTICE |
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| a. Nature of the juridical order: the juridical mind |
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| b. Rights and duties |
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| c. Private and property |
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| Part VII. HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY |
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| Chapter 44. INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY |
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| a. Philosophy as instrument of theology |
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| b. Overview of the History of philosophy |
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| Chapter 45. THE HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY |
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| a. The historical setting of Christianity |
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| b. Plato (427-348 B.C) |
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| c. Aristotle (384-322 B.C) |
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| d. Neo - Platonism |
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| Chapter 46. THE HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY |
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| a. There is a christian philosophy |
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| b. The formation of christian philosophy |
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| c. The contents of christian philosophy |
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| d. St. Augustine (354-430) |
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| e. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) |
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| f. Decadence after St. Thomas |
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| Chapter 47. THE HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY |
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| a. The Modernity movement |
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| b. Humansim |
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| c. Modern philosophy and the Church |
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| d. René Descartes (1596-1650) |
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| e. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) |
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| Chapter 48. CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY |
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| a. Overall view |
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| b. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) |
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| c. Marxism |
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| d. Other kinds of materialism |
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| e. Existentialism |
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| EPILOGUE |
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| BIBLIOGRAPHI |
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| INDEX OF SUBJECTS |
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| INDEX OF NAMES |
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| Appendix: Pope John Paul II's Address at the University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome, November 17, 1979 |
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