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• Title: Thomas Aquinas: Preface to Part Two
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  • spiritually and historically powerful argument of these
  • thinking, but notices also how he had the power to take his
  • historically powerful motif — from Thomas Aquinas to
• Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture I: Thomas and Augustine
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  • changed from the fact that the powerful influence — it
  • was actually a powerful influence in spite of much that has
  • powerful influence on the Western world which had spread from
  • created by the power of light as an ally in its fight against
  • sun by benevolent powers and had thus been taken up by the
  • That was the first powerful influence on Augustine, and the
  • everything with him struggled with intensive and overpowering
  • equally powerful in his soul lived that philosophy which stands
• Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture II: The Essence of Thomism
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  • The power by which the soul finds the connection with that
  • return to freedom and immortality — this power must be
  • himself the power to overcome inherited sin. The Church stood
  • individual man is able to join with those powers in his
  • attained a certain stage of maturity, has the power of
  • remembering. As a small child he has not. Where is this power
  • spiritual-psychic power, and continues still, though always
  • makes us capable, with all the power of thought we possess, we
  • his power of thought stands in real relationship with his
  • spiritual world by using our human powers if we saturate
  • in man as the formative vegetable, and animal powers, as the
  • power of memory, is attracted, as it were, during life by the
  • through Christ seriously. But they had not the thinking power
• Title: Thomas Aquinas: Lecture III: Thomism in the Present Day
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  • vegetative powers, with all the mineral powers and with those
  • appearance when seen under the influence of a powerless
  • but which finally stood powerless before the division into
• Title: Thomas Aquinas: Comment II: Man and the Intelligible World
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  • the likeness of form and creative power is more perfect than
  • creative power. Just as the moon receives the sun's light more
  • this Hierarchy is that of the “Powers” whose office
  • is to overpower everything which could stand in the way of the
  • because a lower power performs its work in virtue of a higher,
• Title: Thomas Aquinas: Comment III: Man and the Material World
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  • natural kingdoms,” in which human power of thought can
  • which functions through no bodily organ, namely, the power of
  • the most exquisite “operatio,” with a power that
  • is shown in the active and operative powers, that the higher a
  • power is, the more accomplishments it has, and this not in a
  • sensitiva all this and in addition the power of reacting to
  • power to keep the material body intact against the laws of
  • its powers, specially that of light, are super-material, but
  • warm, wet or dry, but the power which produces such
  • sphere itself, in which the light and the operative power are
• Title: Thomas Aquinas: Comment IV: Man as a Learning Being
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  • limited power; and therefore it can advance only to a certain
  • his mighty thought-power. As thinker he knows himself also to
  • will-power. As the gold heavens of early Christian art
  • power to dispense the intellect from activity.
  • light can receive a lifting-up to the power of vision.
  • to raise it to such sublimity. For as the natural power of the
  • necessary that by Divine Grace a power of intelligence should
  • power of intelligence the “illumination” of the
  • have more power or ability to see God than that of the other.
  • substance intellectual power exists through the influence of
  • develop such an intellectual power, but only a general and
  • instrument of cognitive power must necessarily itself be void
  • on the body according to its substance; and all powers and
  • Chapter 81. — That Man needs the Powers of
  • through certain media. Of this kind are the sense-powers, which
  • forms of things are particularized in the sense-powers, they
  • particularized forms which lie in the sense-powers
  • his powerful battery against the Arabic antagonism to
  • Therefore, it is in our power to reconsider something
  • by means of the senses. For we have the power to form such
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• Title: Thomas Aquinas: Comment V: The Application of Intelligence to the Human Body
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  • forms, through which the Creator's power which works”
  • without having the disposal even of the powers of the human
  • effect pre-exists according to its power in the effective
  • cause. To pre-exist in the power of the effective cause,
  • their single power. Thus, to the Angels He communicates His
  • according to power, namely Fire and Air, since life is passed
  • smaller power, outweighed the higher in man in quantity. And
  • Fire and Air, which are greater in effective power, were to
  • inner powers of the senses. (N.B. — The doctrine of the
  • four inner senses — the social sense, imaginative power,
  • the inner sensory powers could develop more freely, which he
  • to the power of reasoning, which is open to countless ideas,
  • quality of light, the second in power, and the
  • movement of the power of desire itself, whereas the material
  • on the powers of the senses, whose activity is limited by
  • body was completely subject to the soul, whose lower powers,