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made it clear — seem able or willing to see that the Church could not accept this deity because the Church required a God who caused the universe . The two deities destroyed each other . One was passive ; the other active .
made it clear — seem able or willing to see that the Church could not accept this deity because the Church required a God who caused the universe . The two deities destroyed each other . One was passive ; the other active .
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Of that life , energy , will , or wine - whatever the poets or professors called it - God was the only cause , as He was also the immediate cause , and support . Thomas was emphatic on that point . God is the cause of energy as the sun ...
Of that life , energy , will , or wine - whatever the poets or professors called it - God was the only cause , as He was also the immediate cause , and support . Thomas was emphatic on that point . God is the cause of energy as the sun ...
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It is , however , very ancient : that there is no effect without a cause , and that often the smallest cause produces the greatest effects , is not a recent idea . Lord Bolingbroke avows that the little quarrels of Madame Marlbor- ough ...
It is , however , very ancient : that there is no effect without a cause , and that often the smallest cause produces the greatest effects , is not a recent idea . Lord Bolingbroke avows that the little quarrels of Madame Marlbor- ough ...
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand happen hope human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest keep kind knowledge least less light live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result rule seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish
Bibliographic information
| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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