John Rawls claims that the belief there is but one reasonable and rational conception of "the good" incompatible with political liberalism. A close examination thought Thomas Aquinas, however, reveals commitment to a particular need not imply rejection In fact, Aquinas' notion virtue anticipates Rawls' overlapping consensus. addition, thorough exploration work indicates that, for most part, he ...

We present a valency lexicon for Latin verbs extracted from the Index Thomisticus Treebank, a syntactically annotated corpus of Medieval Latin texts by Thomas Aquinas. In our corpus-based approach, the lexicon reflects the empirical evidence of the source data. Verbal arguments are induced directly from annotated data. The lexicon contains 432 Latin verbs with 270 valency frames. The lexicon is...

Historians of medieval philosophy have always paid attention to the topic of intentionality. This is not surprising. For medieval authors, the analysis of the metaphysics and the mechanisms of human cognition became over time one of the most important instruments for approaching a bundle of basic philosophical and theological questions, such as the nature of universals, the mind-world relation,...

Imagine a God0 that had every attribute that a God1 has (omnipotence, omniscience, omnibenevolence, etc.) except existence. By premise two, having existence is better than not having it. So only God1, not God0, could be God according to Anselm’s definition. Several philosophers, including Descartes (1596–1650), followed Anselm in putting forth a variation of the argument. A contemporary of Anse...