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- adjective Of or pertaining to Thomas Aquinas (circa 1225-1274),
Italian Catholic priest andinfluential philosopher andtheologian .
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Broadly Aristotilean/Aquinian, complete with predictability and intelligibility that would be the hallmark of a mind.
Against Darwinism 2009
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Of course, Tino and Steve Sailer miss an even larger point, too, namely that to protect the interests of the native-born through the use of coercion to cut off millions of peaceful workers from the opportunity of a better life is unacceptable in terms of Kantian, Rawlsian, utilitarian, Catholic-Aquinian, or any other ethical theory.
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In fact the pope has implicitly invoked not only the Aquinian doctrine of double effect but also the principle of the lesser evil, as Vatican officials have explicitly said.
James Heffernan: Memo To Catholic Conservatives: Two Great Saints Stand Behind the Pope's Statement on Condoms James Heffernan 2010
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In fact the pope has implicitly invoked not only the Aquinian doctrine of double effect but also the principle of the lesser evil, as Vatican officials have explicitly said.
James Heffernan: Memo To Catholic Conservatives: Two Great Saints Stand Behind the Pope's Statement On Condoms James Heffernan 2010
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In fact the pope has implicitly invoked not only the Aquinian doctrine of double effect but also the principle of the lesser evil, as Vatican officials have explicitly said.
James Heffernan: Memo To Catholic Conservatives: Two Great Saints Stand Behind the Pope's Statement On Condoms James Heffernan 2010
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In fact the pope has implicitly invoked not only the Aquinian doctrine of double effect but also the principle of the lesser evil, as Vatican officials have explicitly said.
James Heffernan: Memo To Catholic Conservatives: Two Great Saints Stand Behind the Pope's Statement on Condoms James Heffernan 2010
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Subtler versions, without an Aquinian metaphysical bias, of this position have been argued subsequently and more fully by van Fraassen (1996) and others.
Galileo Galilei Machamer, Peter 2009
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If Kant was able to understand the way Aristoteles considered the idea of Apfelkuecher an other one of those Heideggerianianian pearls, literally phased being, but he implies that the phases follow not the moon, as expected, but the outer rings of Saturn, philosophy can not and may not have been as post-colonial Aquinian as we may have considered.
Archive 2008-01-01 enowning 2008
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If Kant was able to understand the way Aristoteles considered the idea of Apfelkuecher an other one of those Heideggerianianian pearls, literally phased being, but he implies that the phases follow not the moon, as expected, but the outer rings of Saturn, philosophy can not and may not have been as post-colonial Aquinian as we may have considered.
enowning enowning 2008
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Despite the efforts of those on the cutting edge of passion theory, however, the Aquinian distinction remained a commonplace bit of early modern folk psychology.
17th and 18th Century Theories of Emotions Schmitter, Amy M. 2006
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