Understanding Our Being: Introduction to Speculative Philosophy in the Perennial Tradition

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309 index Absolute (Being), 92–93, 97, 180, 195, 213–14, 234 abstraction, 36, 41, 54–57, 67–71, 85, 91, 120–22, 135, 147, 160, 163, 216, 281 accidents, 28, 43–44, 47–48, 54, 74, 120, 281 act, 4, 6, 18, 34, 42, 44–45, 48–50, 62– 64, 66–67, 69, 71–73, 83, 86–87, 90, 96, 103, 105–6, 110, 112, 116, 118–19, 124–26, 129, 136–39, 141–45, 147–48, 150, 153–54, 162–63, 165, 169, 174, 176, 181, 195, 198, 204–6, 208–9, 211, 213, 217–18, 224, 224n29, 228–30, 232–33, 235, 237–38, 240–43, 248–51, 257, 265, 281 action, 8, 44–45, 48, 63, 92, 134–35, 138–39, 142–43, 145–47, 150, 195, 225–28, 231–33, 238, 251, 281 actuality, 30, 48, 63, 65–67, 73–74, 78, 82, 86, 96, 111, 116, 195, 198, 200–201, 216, 219–21, 230, 232, 241, 271, 281 Adler, Mortimer J., 124n17 affective keys, 133, 147, 281 affectivity, 111, 114, 118, 123, 128–37, 139–48, 162–64, 249, 252, 266, 281– 82, 284, 287–88, 296 agent (or active) intellect, 120, 281 agnosticism, 185–86, 206, 281 Allah, 225 analogical use of terms/analogy, 38, 74–80, 85, 98–99, 207, 209, 215, 233, 247, 252, 260, 266, 271, 281. See also attribution, analogy of; proportionality , analogy of analytic philosophy, xi, 19–20, 282 Anaxagoras, 50 angels, 72, 164, 198 animal, 39, 44, 46–47, 53, 55, 59, 75, 87, 114, 116–19, 123–33, 135–36, 142–43, 148–50, 154, 161, 165, 167–68, 170, 181, 240–41, 245, 266 Anselm, St., 192 appetite, 129–30, 132, 135–36, 142, 144, 147, 163, 181, 282. See also concupiscible appetite; irascible appetite Aquinas, St. Thomas, xi, 4, 7, 10–11, 20–21, 23, 28, 30, 38, 53, 58, 70, 73, 80, 82, 93, 98–99, 110–12, 115, 118, 124, 126, 133, 139, 156, 162, 165, 170, 176–77, 181, 189, 192–95, 197– 204, 206–10, 212–13, 218, 220–21, 224–25, 231–35, 237–38, 240, 242, 244–45, 250–51, 256–57, 260, 265–66, 270–71, 276, 282–83, 295 argument, 5–7, 22, 95–96, 112, 126–27, 152, 162, 166, 174, 181–82, 186–90, 192–204, 213, 245, 256, 260–61, 266, 274, 282 Aristotle, xi, 3, 6, 10–11, 20, 23, 27–28, 30, 34, 38–39, 41, 43–44, 48, 52, 54, 58, 62, 65–66, 70, 90, 111–12, 115, 117, 120, 122, 127, 130, 136–38, 162, 172, 176, 180, 219, 221, 233–34, 255, 265, 282, 284, 286, 291 atheism, 185–86, 204, 245, 282 Atkins, Peter, 13, 94–95, 110, 172–175, 182 attribution, analogy of, 76, 79, 210 Audi, Robert, 10n6 Augustine, St., 11, 159, 219, 240, 250, 260 Ayer, A. J., 33 310 index beauty, 79–80, 82, 93, 99, 179, 195, 211, 282 Behe, Michael, 201n11 being, vi–vi, xi–xiii, 3, 10–11, 13, 16–17, 20, 22–23, 25, 27–59, 62–77, 79–99, 103–16, 118, 120–21, 123–24, 126, 128, 129–36, 140, 142–44, 146–54, 156, 158, 160–72, 174–77, 179–83, 185, 188, 190–208, 210–22, 224, 227–38, 240–41, 243–45, 247–50, 253–59, 265–66, 268, 270, 273–74, 277–78, 282 Being-with-Nothingness, 92, 125, 168, 191 Being-without-Nothingness, 92, 168, 192 belief, 5, 13, 15, 22, 28, 35, 39, 65, 94, 131, 141, 143, 150, 157, 175–76, 178, 185–86, 188, 193, 204, 221, 224, 226, 239–40, 244–46, 248, 255–56, 259, 261, 271, 273 Benedict XVI, Pope, 16, 250, 255n50, 273 Berkeley, George, 33, 108n3 Bernard, Claude, 95 biblicism, 18, 259, 282 Big Bang, 210–11, 230, 233, 235–37, 240 body, 49, 107–9, 111, 164, 166–67, 170, 186, 180, 268 Boethius, 219–20, 232n35, 236–37, 260 brain, 39, 44, 110, 116, 123–24, 126–27, 163, 172–76, 285 Brody, Baruch A., 226n30, 229n31, 245n43 Brown, Raymond E., S.S., 258n55 Brown, Warren S., 175n55 Buddhism, 270, 278 Burrell, David B., C.S.C., 271n5 capitalism, 160n47 cardinal virtues, 142, 282 category, 33, 44, 48, 79, 90, 117, 120, 129, 194, 224, 241, 251, 282, 290, 295 Catholic tradition/Catholicism, xi–xii, 3, 7, 10–12, 20–21, 158n46, 179n58, 189–90, 252, 254–55, 272–73, 276...