The Supreme Conquest

The Supreme Conquest
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 264
Release :
ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433068269640
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis The Supreme Conquest by : William Lonsdale Watkinson

Summa Theologica Part I-II ("Pars Prima Secundae") (Annotated Edition)

Summa Theologica Part I-II (
Author :
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Total Pages : 1828
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783849620905
ISBN-13 : 3849620905
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Summa Theologica Part I-II ("Pars Prima Secundae") (Annotated Edition) by : St. Thomas Aquinas

This is the extended and annotated edition including * an extensive biographical annotation about the author and his life The Summa Theologiæ (Latin: Compendium of Theology or Theological Compendium; also subsequently called the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas (c.1225–1274), and although unfinished, "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature." It is intended as a manual for beginners in theology and a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Church. It presents the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: the existence of God; Creation, Man; Man's purpose; Christ; the Sacraments; and back to God. (courtesy of wikipedia.com). This is part 1-2, 'Pars Prima Secundae'. In a chain of acts of will, man strives for the highest end. They are free acts, insofar as man has in himself the knowledge of their end (and therein the principle of action). In that the will wills the end, it wills also the appropriate means, chooses freely and completes the consensus. Whether the act be good or evil depends on the end. The "human reason" pronounces judgment concerning the character of the end; it is, therefore, the law for action. Human acts, however, are meritorious insofar as they promote the purpose of God and his honor. By repeating a good action, man acquires a moral habit or a quality which enables him to do the good gladly and easily. This is true, however, only of the intellectual and moral virtues (which Aquinas treats after the manner of Aristotle); the theological virtues are imparted by God to man as a "disposition", from which the acts here proceed; while they strengthen, they do not form it. The "disposition" of evil is the opposite alternative. An act becomes evil through deviation from the reason, and from divine moral law. Therefore, sin involves two factors: its substance (or matter) is lust; in form, however, it is deviation from the divine law. Contents: • Treatise on the last end (qq. 1 to 5) • Treatise on human acts: Acts peculiar to humans (qq. 6 to 21) • Treatise on the passions (qq. 22 to 48) • Treatise on habits (qq. 49 to 54) • Treatise on habits in particular (qq. 55 to 89): Good habits, i.e. virtues (qq. 55 to 70) • Treatise on law (qq. 90 to 108) • Treatise on grace (qq. 109 to 114)

Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt

Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 232
Release :
ISBN-10 : WISC:89071062525
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Thoth, the Hermes of Egypt by : Patrick Boylan

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic Or the Art of Thinking

Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic Or the Art of Thinking
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 328
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0521483948
ISBN-13 : 9780521483940
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic Or the Art of Thinking by : Antoine Arnauld

A new translation of the treatise which inspired modern developments in logic and semantic theory.

Indian Literature: An Introduction

Indian Literature: An Introduction
Author :
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Total Pages : 426
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9788131776087
ISBN-13 : 8131776085
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis Indian Literature: An Introduction by : University of Delhi

Indian Literature: An Introduction is the first ever bilingual collection that includes some of the most significant writing in Indian Literature from its beginnings more than four thousand years ago to the present. It includes selections from the epics, drama, the novel, poems, a letter, an essay and short stories. The literary encounter is enriched with the juxtaposition of English and Hindi translation which set up a dialogue with the original language and between themselves.

Higher Education System Reform

Higher Education System Reform
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 242
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789004400115
ISBN-13 : 9004400117
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Higher Education System Reform by :

The Bologna Declaration started the development of the European Higher Education Area. The ensuing Bologna Process has run for already 20 years now. In the meantime many higher education systems in Europe have been reformed – some more drastically than others; some quicker than others; some with more resistance than others. In the process of reform the initial (six) goals have sometimes been forgotten or sometimes been taken a step further. The context too has shifted: while the European Union in itself has expanded, the voice for exit has also been heard more frequently. Higher Education System Reform: An international comparison after Twenty Years of Bologna critically describes and analyses 12 Higher Education Systems from the perspective of four major questions: What is currently the situation with regard to the six original goals of Bologna? What was the adopted path of reform? Which were the triggering (economic, social, political) factors for the reform in each specific country? What was the rationale/discourse used during the reform? The book comparatively analyses the different systems, their paths of reforms and trajectories, and the similarities and the differences between them. At the same time it critically assesses the current situation on higher education in Europe, and hints towards a future policy agenda. Contributors are: Tommaso Agasisti, Bruno Broucker, Martina Dal Molin, Kurt De Wit, Andrew Gibson, Ellen Hazelkorn, Gergely Kovats, Liudvika Leišytė, Lisa Lucas, António Magalhães, Sude Peksen, Rosalind Pritchard, Palle Rasmussen, Anna-Lena Rose, Christine Teelken, Eva M. de la Torre, Carmen Perez-Esparrells, Jani Ursin, Amélia Veiga, Jef C. Verhoeven, Nadine Zeeman, and Rimantas Želvys.

Bias in Indian Historiography

Bias in Indian Historiography
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 458
Release :
ISBN-10 : UOM:39015012199793
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Bias in Indian Historiography by : Indian History and Culture Society. Session

Papers presented at the Second Session of the Indian History and Culture Society, held at New Delhi during 9-11 February 1979.

Aristotle's De Motu Animalium

Aristotle's De Motu Animalium
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 464
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780691219486
ISBN-13 : 0691219486
Rating : 4/5 (86 Downloads)

Synopsis Aristotle's De Motu Animalium by : Martha C. Nussbaum

Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains text with translation of De Motu Animalium, Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwork for a general theory of the explanation of animal activity, along with commentary and interpretive essays on the work.