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Clauson, David William. "The theodicy of Thomas Aquinas." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
Full textSakowski, Derek J. "Aquinas, Owens, and individuation." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 1999. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMcCabe, Joseph F. "Prudence in St. Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/6866.
Full textShimek, John Paul. "Thomas Aquinas on just war." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0661.
Full textHooten, James R. "St. Thomas Aquinas and virtue epistemology." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2006. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p050-0136.
Full textWestberg, Daniel. "Right practical reason : Aristotle, action, and prudence in Aquinas /." Oxford [u.a.] : Clarendon Press, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0606/93044415-d.html.
Full textKeating, Mary Dolora. "Human acts according to St. Thomas Aquinas." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004.
Find full textSchwartz, Daniel. "Thomas Aquinas on friendship, concord and justice." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396130.
Full textJenkins, John Ignatius. "Knowledge, faith and philosophy in Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385468.
Full textGardner, Elinor. "Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Death Penalty." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/712.
Full textCatholic moral philosophers and theologians for centuries used Thomas Aquinas's defense of the death penalty as a point of reference in defending the state's right to execute. Recent Church documents such as Evangelium Vitae, however, seem to take a different approach to the question than Aquinas did. In secular contemporary treatments of the death penalty, Aquinas's account is often caricatured or simply overlooked. One of the reasons for this is the lack of a thorough treatment of the death penalty in the thought of Aquinas. This dissertation seeks to address that deficiency. I present Aquinas's account of capital punishment as an example of determining civil punishments through the exercise of practical reason. Aquinas's thought sanctions neither an absolute acceptance nor an absolute rejection of the death penalty; for him, this is not a question that admits of absolutes. Like other punishments, the death penalty is a determination made by human reason. Its justification depends on specific historical and cultural circumstances and on the needs of the political community, as well as on the severity of the offense. Killing a guilty person is not intrinsically evil, in Aquinas's view, but it is nonetheless a last resort, when nothing else can be done for the good of the community. It may be that recent Church documents have avoided making use of the Thomistic teaching on the death penalty, even where this could have made their reasoning clearer, for fear that such arguments would be misunderstood, or in order to make a clearer case for forgoing the penalty. If this dissertation contributes to our understanding of what Thomas actually says about CP, it will be helpful in reconciling the thought of John Paul II with the tradition of Catholic thought on capital punishment, as well as in offering a reasonable way for thinking about punishments in general
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
Keating, Mary Dolora. "Human acts according to St. Thomas Aquinas." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMasek, Mary Katerina. "Natural law and synderesis according to Thomas Aquinas." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textRosheger, John P. "Transcending the chasm Aquinas, God, and analogy /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1991. http://www.tren.com.
Full textJonasson, Robert Frederick. "The political uses of subsidiarity, from Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Courchene." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ58174.pdf.
Full textViego, Carlos M. "Magnanimity a virtue in Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMartin, Thomas Joseph. "Thomas Aquinas on God's knowledge of non-existing possibles." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textErb, Heather McAdam. "Natural priority in the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0007/NQ41147.pdf.
Full textWestberg, Daniel. "The importance of prudence according to Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304943.
Full textAustin, Nicholas Owen. "Thomas Aquinas on the Four Causes of Temperance." Thesis, Boston College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3742.
Full textThis dissertation aims to give a theoretical account of the cardinal virtue of temperance that portrays it as an attractive (albeit demanding) virtue, and provides the justification and method for applying it to multiple spheres of life today. To this end, it offers a critical interpretation and retrieval of Saint Thomas Aquinas' account of the four causes of temperantia in the Summa Theologiae. I claim that, for Thomas, the four causes of a moral virtue are its mode (formal cause), matter and subject (material cause), proper end (final cause) and agent (efficient cause). Less technically, they can be expressed in terms of five guiding questions to be used in understanding any given virtue: What is the practical wisdom actualized by that virtue? What is the sphere of life with which the virtue is concerned? What aspect of the human heart and mind does the virtue modify? What is the virtue for? What causes the virtue to exist and increase? To answer to these five questions is to give an account of a moral virtue. This dissertation develops and applies this causal method for analyzing a moral virtue, both as a means of interpreting Thomas' account of temperance, and as a tool for constructing a theory of temperance for today. Temperance, I claim, can be defined as the modulation of attraction for the sake of right relationship. It is developed through both discipline and grace. Temperance does not repress desire, but forms and channels its positively, placing it at the service of right relationship to oneself, others, the earth and God. It does limit and restrain desire, but always for the sake of deeper and more meaningful goods. Temperance therefore modulates harmoniously between the restraint and the redirection of desire, the fast and the feast. Temperance is often misunderstood as proposing a purely negative ideal of repression and constraint. The dissertation claims that, on the contrary, temperance is a positive and attractive virtue, and one that is urgently needed in consumer society
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2010
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Trapp, Michael Vann. "Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Singular Thought." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/52901.
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Ryan, Robert J. "Thomas Aquinas on man's natural desire for God." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0729.
Full textSmith, Cheryl A. "A tertium quid the interactive dualism of Thomas Aquinas /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2000. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBredemeyer, Ryan M. "Divine causation and human freedom according to Thomas Aquinas." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLedinich, Steven. "A study of substantial change in the writings of St Thomas Aquinas." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2018. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/fb79bb39304de454e8c50c42f95dccb5638cb0799e2c600ac221445aa62f284c/1286906/LEDINICH_2018_A_study_of_substantial_change.pdf.
Full textFarmer, Linda L. "Matter and the human body according to Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/nq26115.pdf.
Full textPilsner, Joseph. "The specification of human actions in St. Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.310103.
Full textFERNANDEZ, MARTIN UGARTECHE. "THE METAPHOR IN SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS AND PAUL RICOEUR." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12438@1.
Full textO estudo visa mostrar a natureza da metáfora, e em particular seu valor especulativo e fundamento ontológico (ou ontologia implícita) para Santo Tomás de Aquino e Paul Ricoeur, realizando uma comparação entre as duas concepções. Em um primeiro momento, é apresentada a concepção tomista da metáfora, através do recurso a quatro intérpretes do Aquinate (Penido, McInerny, Cruz e Duffy). Em um segundo momento é apresentada a concepção de Paul Ricoeur, especialmente em A metáfora viva. Na parte final do trabalho, são comparadas a incorporação da imagem no discurso especulativo (valor especulativo da metáfora) e a relação metáfora-ontologia (fundamento ontológico da metáfora) nos dois autores.
The study aims at showing the nature of metaphor, particularly its speculative value and its ontological foundation (or implicit ontology), for Saint Thomas Aquinas and Paul Ricoeur, making a comparison between both conceptions. In a first moment, Aquinas` conception of metaphor is presented, recurring to four interpreters (Penido, McInerny, Cruz and Duffy). In a second moment, Ricoeur`s conception of metaphor is displayed, especially as presented in The living metaphor. In the final part of the work, the incorporation of image in speculative discourse (speculative value of metaphor) and the relation metaphor-ontology (ontological foundation of metaphor) in both authors are compared.
Toft, Elizabeth Beshear. "Christ's Role in Sanctification According to St. Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, Boston College, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/3731.
Full textThis study investigates Aquinas' understanding of Christ's role in sanctification. In discussing the soteriological effect of Christ's passion, Aquinas makes a distinction between the manner in which the soteriological effect is brought about (modo efficiendi), the effect in itself, and the way the effect is obtained. The dissertation explores Aquinas' understanding of the third element - the securing of the effect of Christ's passion - and the relation of this third element to the first two. Sanctifying grace is given as a result of Christ's saving acts, is infused by an act of the Holy Spirit, and conforms its recipients to the Holy Spirit. But Christ's role in sanctification does not cease once the Holy Spirit is given. In Aquinas' judgment, Christ continues to be present in the giving of the gift, a giving that is also consequent upon a being conformed to Christ. The dissertation builds toward an examination of how Aquinas understands this being conformed to Christ, especially in light of Aquinas' conception of faith as a knowledge of God, of Christ as the source and object of faith's knowledge, and of charity's relation to this knowledge, all of which are analyzed against Aquinas' strict adherence to the principle that humans cannot know God in his essence so long as they remain in time
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2009
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Theology
Twetten, Walter S. "The doctrine of divine simplicity in Thomas Aquinas and a contemporary defense." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1987. http://www.tren.com.
Full textBoland, Vivian. "Ideas in God according to Saint Thomas Aquinas : sources and synthesis /." Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E. J. Brill, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36693757q.
Full textColón-Emeric, Edgardo Antonio. "Perfection in dialogue an ecumenical encounter between Wesley and Aquinas /." PDF version available through ProQuest, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.drew.edu/pqdweb?index=7&did=1579957341&SrchMode=1&sid=6&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1249055932&clientId=10355.
Full textKizewski, Justin J. "The principle "unreceived act is unlimited" in the metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textGoodwin, Colin Robert, and res cand@acu edu au. "Praesentia Substantialis: an examination of the Thomistic metaphysics of the Eucharistic presence." Australian Catholic University. School of Philosophy, 2006. http://dlibrary.acu.edu.au/digitaltheses/public/adt-acuvp138.17052007.
Full textCavallin, Samuel. "Thomas Aquinas’ Universality Argument for the Immateriality of the Intellect : a reconstruction by Gyula Klima." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-176275.
Full textPiknjac, Darko. "Metaphysical groundwork of the Five ways of St. Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0005/NQ41273.pdf.
Full textKerr, G. "The metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas and Neo-Thomistic realism." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.546368.
Full textSilva, Ignacio A. "Divine action in nature : Thomas Aquinas and the contemporary debate." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522799.
Full textKieu, Tu Van. "The conformity of Christ's two wills according to Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, Boston College, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108464.
Full textVanden, Bout Melissa Rovig. "Thomas Aquinas and the Generation of the Embryo: Being Human before the Rational Soul." Thesis, Boston College, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:104090.
Full textThomas Aquinas is generally viewed as the chief proponent of the theory of delayed animation, the view that the human embryo does not at first have the rational soul proper to human beings. Thomas follows Aristotle's embryology, in which an embryo is animated by a succession of souls. The first is a nutritive soul, having the powers of growth, nutrition, and generation. The second is a sensitive soul, having the additional powers of locomotion and sensing. The third and final soul is the human, or rational soul, which virtually includes the nutritive and sensitive souls. Because Thomas holds that there is only one substantial form of a composite, none of these forms overlap to provide continuity. It is therefore exceedingly difficult to speak of the embryo as one enduring subject through the succession of souls. Moreover, because of the way that the nutritive soul is associated with plants, and the sensitive soul is associated with animals, interpreters generally hold that for Thomas the embryo is first a plant, then an animal, and with the advent of the rational soul, finally a human being. Those who write about the ontological status of the embryo assume that delayed animation necessarily entails delayed hominization, that is, that the embryo only becomes human at a later stage of its development, when it receives the rational soul. Those who hold a delayed animation view of the embryo often invoke Thomas' schedule of successive souls in the embryo as a model for viewing it as not yet human in early stages of development, linking hominization to the ability to perform intellectual operations. That Thomas specifies that a body must be sufficiently organized before the advent of the rational soul seems to them to solidify their view of the embryo as not sufficiently organized to be truly human. Additionally, even outside of an explicitly Thomist framework, Thomist metaphysical principles are often invoked in arguments that center on twinning and totipotency of blastomeres in the early embryo, and whether that early embryo is one individual if it is potentially many. Those who hold immediate animation views (i.e., the embryo receives the rational soul at once, with no mediate states) often adopt the strategy of importing modern data on the internal organization and self-directed development of the embryo, and argue that if only Thomas had known that the zygote was not unformed and undifferentiated, that it has within itself all it needs to become a mature adult human, he would have held that the embryo is immediately suited to receive the rational soul, and thus is human from conception. In this way they attempt to employ a change in scientific data to negate the need for a succession of forms in the embryo. The author identifies the being of the human embryo as a prior metaphysical problem within Thomas' work, and advances a different interpretation of his views: that the embryo, even before the advent of the rational soul, is human. To establish this claim, she traces the problems which emerge in the current debate about when the embryo becomes human, and argues that contrary to expectation, it is not necessary to equate immediate rational animation with immediate hominization, demonstrating that all other approaches yield results entirely untenable for Thomas. A survey of texts reveals that Thomas did in fact view the embryo as human before the rational soul, though he does not methodically work out the implications of that view in a number of areas. Moreover, a distinction based on a passage in Aristotle's Generation of Animals with regard to an additional meaning of generation may resolve the ambivalence in Thomas' account of the embryo as passive under the formative power of the father's semen. Finally, a third meaning of generation is offered to show that Thomas recognized and wished to resolve the difficulty of explaining the continuity and identify of the embryo in the succession of souls. What results is an immediate hominization view of the embryo that, because it accommodates Thomas' succession of souls and does not depend upon importing modern biological data on the embryo, is consistent with Thomas' account, and is thoroughly cognizant of the way Thomas viewed human nature and the final end of human being
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Philosophy
Romero, Carrasquillo Francisco José. "The finality of religion in Aquinas' theory of human acts." [Milwaukee, Wis.] : e-Publications@Marquette, 2009. http://epublications.marquette.edu/dissertations_mu/21.
Full textEkman, Mary Julian. "Transcendental good and moral evil in the metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2008. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p029-0735.
Full textPrima, Frank Joseph. "The human soul as form and Hoc aliquid according to St. Thomas Aquinas." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.
Full textLai, Poon Y. "[A comparative study of Mo-Tze's universal love and Thomas Aquinas' charity]." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1994. http://www.tren.com.
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Jansen, Raymond. "Aquinas on the cogitative power and the generation of the sense appetite." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.
Full textFarmer, Linda. "'Esse' and human individuation in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/7849.
Full textHaghighatkar, Azarmidokht. "The concept of essence in two early writings of Thomas Aquinas." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0002/MQ45053.pdf.
Full textDavison, Andrew Paul. "The conceptualisation of finitude in Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.607873.
Full textIribarren, Isabel. "The Trinitarian controversy between Durandus of St Pourcain and the Dominican Order in the early fourteenth century : the limits of theological dissent." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365635.
Full textMcPike, David Roderick. "Thomas Aquinas on the Separability of Accidents and Dietrich of Freiberg’s Critique." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32867.
Full textWood, Andrew Francis. "Thomas Aquinas and Joseph Ratzinger's theology of divine revelation: a comparative study." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2018. https://doi.org/10.26199/5cb7af3a4828a.
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