Y. Yamamoto, Thomas Aquinas: The Philosophy of Affirmation

Virtues in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas

RECENT YEARS have seen the publication of studies advocating an orientation for Christian ethics based upon virtue. Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair Maclntyre, Paul J. Wadell, Jean Porter, Daniel Mark Nelson, and others are associated with this approach. To many who had known and experienced Roman Catholic moral theology in the decades before Vatican II, this invitation to a restoration of virtue eth...

St. Thomas Aquinas: Economics of the Just Society

The Ph.C. degree: an affirmation of chiropractic philosophy, 1908-1968.

The Concept of Vice and Its Relation to Sin from the Perspective of Thomas Aquinas and Mullah Mehdi Naraghi

This article tries to study comparatively the two concepts of vice and guilt and their relationship to each other in a descriptive-analytical method and based on the main works of Thomas Aquinas and Mullah Mehdi Naraghi. For Aquinas and Naraghi, vice is the opposite of virtue. From an anthropological point of view, the concept of "vice"  indicates a kind of inner and spiritual immaturity of man...

william of ockham's confrontation with the foundationalism of aristotle and thomas aquinas

traditional foundationalism, initially put forward by aristotle, also received attention in the middle ages. thomas aquinas sustained the theory with a little bit adaptation. but, becuase of his unique conception of the mechanism of knowledge acquisition, william of ockham suggested a theory of foundationalism based on direct realism. in order to avoid the criticisms levelled at aristotle'...