Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good

Aquinas on the Twofold Human Good

Author: Denis J. M. Bradley

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 0813209528

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Annotation. Against the background of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Bradley provides a detailed differentiation between Aristotle's and Aquinas's view on moral principles and the end of man.


When Topology Meets Chemistry

When Topology Meets Chemistry

Author: Erica Flapan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-07-31

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1316583953

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The applications of topological techniques for understanding molecular structures have become increasingly important over the past thirty years. In this topology text, the reader will learn about knot theory, 3-dimensional manifolds, and the topology of embedded graphs, while learning the role these play in understanding molecular structures. Most of the results that are described in the text are motivated by questions asked by chemists or molecular biologists, though the results themselves often go beyond answering the original question asked. There is no specific mathematical or chemical prerequisite; all the relevant background is provided. The text is enhanced by nearly 200 illustrations and more than 100 exercises. Reading this fascinating book, undergraduate mathematics students can escape the world of pure abstract theory and enter that of real molecules, while chemists and biologists will find simple, clear but rigorous definitions of mathematical concepts they handle intuitively in their work.


God's Wounds

God's Wounds

Author: Jeff B Pool

Publisher: James Clarke & Company

Published: 2011-07-28

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0227903145

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God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, Volume I: Divine Vulnerability and Creation is the first of a three-volume study of Christian testimonies to divine suffering. The larger study focuses its inquiry on the testimonies to divine suffering themselves, seeking to allow the voices that attest to divine suffering to speak freely. The goal is then to discover and elucidate the internal logic or rationality of this family of testimonies, rather than defending these attestations against the dominant claims of classical Christian theism that have historically sought to eliminate such language altogether from Christian discourse about the nature and life of God. In this first volume, the author develops an approach to interpreting the contested claims about the suffering of God. Through this approach to the Christian symbol of divine suffering, he then investigates the two major presuppositions that the larger family of testimonies to divine suffering normally hold: an understanding of God through the primary metaphor of love ('God is love'); and an understanding of the human as created in the image of God, with a life (though finite) analogous to the divine life - the imago Dei as love. When fully elaborated, these presuppositions reveal the conditions of possibility for divine suffering and divine vulnerability with respect to creation.


The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good

The Structure of Being and the Search for the Good

Author: Dominic O'Meara

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-10-28

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1040230946

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The essays in this book discuss a number of the central metaphysical and ethical themes that engaged the minds of Platonist philosophers during late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. One particular theme is that of the structure of reality, with the associated questions of the relations between soul and body and between intelligible and sensible reality, and the existence of mathematical objects. Other topics relate to evil and beauty, political life and its purpose, the philosophical search for the absolute Good, and how one can speak about this Absolute and have union with it. Going from Plato to Eriugena, the ways in which Platonist philosophers understood and developed these themes are analysed and compared.


Solid State Physics

Solid State Physics

Author: Henry Ehrenreich

Publisher: Academic Press

Published: 2004-08-24

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0080865232

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This volume contains two articles on topics in materials science of great importance: the thermodynamics of stressed solids, a fundamental problem that goes back to Gibbs, and hydrogen in materials, an area that is both scientifically rich and of great current technological importance.


Lectures on Moral Government of God Vol1

Lectures on Moral Government of God Vol1

Author: Nathaniel Taylor

Publisher: Applewood Books

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 1429018828

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With our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.