Essays about: "Aquinas"

Found 3 essays containing the word Aquinas.

  1. 1. Face to face: the Beatific Vision according to Gregory of Nyssa and Thomas Aquinas

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion

    Author : Victor Hjort; [2023-06-29]
    Keywords : anthropology; beatific vision; epistemology; eschatology; Gregory of Nyssa; teleology; Thomas Aquinas; theology;

    Abstract : Abstract: This dissertation aims to retrieve the doctrine of the beatific vision from the works of Gregory of Nyssa and Thomas Aquinas, hence the research question is: What are the respective understandings of the beatific vision in the works of Gregory of Nyssa and Thomas Aquinas? The method used in this dissertation is descriptive content analysis and it is written in the theory or tradition of Theologies of Retrieval. One of the main results is Gregory’s and Thomas’ respective solution to the Biblical paradox of the eschatological promise to see God face to face and the impossibility to see God, where Gregory suggests that the beatific vision is of God’s energies rather than God’s infinite essence and Thomas suggests that the beatific vision is the ontological union with God, in the noetic identity. READ MORE

  3. 2. Thomas Aquinas’ Universality Argument for the Immateriality of the Intellect : a reconstruction by Gyula Klima

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för idé- och samhällsstudier

    Author : Samuel Cavallin; [2020]
    Keywords : Aquino; Aquinas; universalitetsargument; intellektets immaterialitet; Pasnau; Klima;

    Abstract : The paper investigates Gyula Klima’s reconstruction of Aquinas argument for the immateriality of the intellect by the concept of human thought and its success to avoid the Content Fallacy. This fallacy, which is coined by Robert Pasnau, describes an illicit inference from a description of the nature of a thought, to what a thought represents, its content. READ MORE

  4. 3. Intervention? Yes, it’s Just War : Analyzing the possibilities of justifying a U.S. intervention according to the Just War Theory

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Carl-Christian Nasri; [2019]
    Keywords : Just War Theory; Thomas Aquinas; Syria; Chemical Weapons; legitimacy;

    Abstract : This study will focus on examining the probabilities of justifying military interventions. In order to conduct this study, the U.S. will be the subject of interest. READ MORE