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Summa contra gentiles. Book three, Providence. Part 1 /
The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written; it is also a creative and revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to be intellectually creative in order to master and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Latín |
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Notre Dame, Indiana :
University of Notre Dame Press,
1975.
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| Edición: | University of Notre Dame Press edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- The sources
- Secondary studies
- Studies on the end of man and the vision of God
- How every agent acts for an end
- That every agent acts for a good
- That evil in things is not intended
- Arguments which seem to prove that evil is not apart from intention
- Answers to these arguments
- That evil is not an essence
- Arguments which seem to prove that evil is a nature or some real thing
- Answers to these arguments
- That good is the cause of evil
- That evil is based on the good
- That evil does not wholly destroy good
- That evil has a cause of some sort
- That evil is an accidental cause
- That there is no highest evil
- That the end of everything is a good
- That all things are ordered to one end Who is God
- How God is the end of all things
- That all things tend to become like God
- How things imitate divine goodness
- That things naturally tend to become like God inasmuch as He is a cause
- How things are ordered to their ends in various ways
- That the motion of the heavens comes from an intellectual principle
- How even beings devoid of knowledge seek the good
- That to understand God is the end of every intellectual substance
- Whether felicity consists in a will act
- That human felicity does not consist in pleasures of the flesh
- That felicity does not consist in honors
- That man's felicity does not consist in glory
- That man's felicity does not consist in riches
- That felicity does not consist in worldly power
- That felicity does not consist in goods of the body
- That human felicity does not lie in the senses
- That man's ultimate felicity does not lie in acts of the moral virtues
- That ultimate felicity does not lie in the act of prudence
- That felicity does not consist in the operation of art
- That the ultimate felicity of man consists in the contemplation of God
- That human felicity does not consist in the knowledge of God which is generally possessed by most men
- That human felicity does not consist in the knowledge of God gained through demonstration
- Human felicity does not consist in the knowledge of God which is through faith
- Whether in this life man is able to understand separate substances through the study and investigation of the speculative sciences
- That we cannot in this life understand separate substances in the way that Alexander claimed
- That we cannot in this life understand separate substances in the way that Averroes claimed
- That man's ultimate felicity does not consist in the kind of knowledge of separate substances that the foregoing opinions assume.