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5 days ago · Explorer Matthew Henson was an African-American who lived an interesting life, due to his resourceful nature in overcoming obstacles that stood in his way. He played a pivotal role in the discovery of the North Pole. What do you know about him?
5 days ago · Determinism, in philosophy and science, the thesis that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable. Determinism is usually understood to preclude free will because it entails that humans cannot decide or act otherwise than they do.
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3 days ago · middle school. Students will discuss how feelings about their families lead them to treat their relatives as they explore how focusing on Jesus can help family relationships. VIEW LESSON. Lesson 6.
4 days ago · His successor as head of the school, Origen, systematized these hermeneutical principles. Origen distinguished the literal, moral, and spiritual senses but acknowledged the spiritual (i.e., allegorical) to be the highest.
3 days ago · Despite the use of his mathematical texts in the early universities, it is his final work, the Consolation of Philosophy, that assured his legacy in the Middle Ages and beyond. This work is cast as a dialogue between Boethius himself, at first bitter and despairing over his imprisonment, and the spirit of philosophy, depicted as a woman of ...
5 days ago · The Medieval Use of the Greek Philosophers. There has always been that class of “theologians,” Étienne Gilson tells us, “according to whom Revelation had been given to men as a substitute for all other knowledge, including science, ethics and metaphysics …. Reduced to its essentials, their position is very simple; since God has spoken ...
3 days ago · Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language. It is a rational and critical inquiry that reflects on its own methods and assumptions.
