St. Thomas Aquinas’s Theory of Pagan Virtues: A Pilgrimage Towards the Infused Cardinal Virtues
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2657-3555
DOI: 10.2478/ejsta-2015-0002