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Care of the soul
In Plato’s Apology, Socrates urges care for the soul before body and property so that the soul may become as good as possible.
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37,569 passages
Justice
Justice concerns action, relationship, and collective order. Across the texts it can be personal virtue, political arrangement, divine demand, or repair of harm.
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Family
Family is at once a bond of origin, a field of obligations, and a place where authority, care, and transmission take shape.
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Sin
Sin is a rupture of moral order or relationship with God, understood across texts as act, disposition, or condition.
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Reason
Reason can name a capacity to judge, a structure of the world, or a method of argument. Its exact force depends on author and passage.
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God
God names the divine being or supreme principle, while its attributes and relation to the world differ profoundly across corpora.
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Virtue
Virtue names the excellence of a disposition or action. In Stoicism it is sufficient for the good life because it concerns the use of judgement rather than external fortune.
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Love
Love is an attachment that seeks another’s good; its forms range from desire and friendship to charity.
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Essence and existence
The distinction between essence and existence asks what a thing is and by what it actually exists, refusing to confuse definition with the act of existing.
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Faith and reason
The relation of faith and reason distinguishes truths open to rational inquiry from those received through revelation, without making either a lazy substitute for the other.
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Scholastic disputation
Scholastic disputation states a question, presents objections, develops a structured answer, and replies to each objection so that disagreement remains inspectable.
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Natural law
Natural law grounds some norms in shared reason or nature rather than solely in a ruler’s decision.
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Act and potency
Act and potency distinguish what is realized from what can be realized through a definite capacity, explaining change, fulfilment, and limitation.
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Beatific vision
Beatific vision names, in Aquinas’s theology, the intellect’s ultimate fulfilment in direct knowledge of God, not an ordinary experience that can be guaranteed.
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War and peace
War and peace concern the legitimacy of violence, the conduct of conflict, and the conditions of lasting order.
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Slavery
Slavery here names the institution that turns persons into property and legally organizes their coercion, labor, and transfer.
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Political union
Political union binds states and citizens under common authority; preserving it raises questions of secession, loyalty, and coercion.
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Time
Time is at once a cosmic condition, a moral resource, and an experience of loss. Several texts ask what we actually do with the portion given to us.
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Democracy
Democracy locates political authority in citizens and depends on rights, procedures, and a culture of discussion.
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Constitutional government
Constitutional government exercises power through established offices, procedures, and limits, including when war puts those constraints under pressure.
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Civil war
Civil war pits members of one political community against one another and turns disputes over authority, territory, and rights into organized violence.
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Messiah
The Messiah is the anointed figure expected or recognized as an agent of salvation and fulfilment of promises.
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Ether and field
Ether and field name two historical ways of thinking about the medium and propagation of physical phenomena.
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Law
Law states a common norm and raises questions about its authority, interpretation, and application to action.
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Nature
Nature can mean the order of the world, the constitution of a being, or what happens without artifice. Reading the term requires attention to scale and argument.
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Friendship
Friendship is a chosen bond of trust and goodwill whose pleasures, obligations, and moral reach the texts examine.
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Roles and relationships
For Epictetus, duties are measured by concrete relationships, including those to a father, brother, neighbor, or fellow citizen.
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Anger
Anger is examined as passion, response to injustice, and risk of losing command of judgement. Criticizing it does not forbid firm action.
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Mindfulness
Mindfulness is vigilant presence observing body, feeling, mind, and phenomena without losing sight of their arising and passing.
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Service
Service places abilities and actions at the disposal of others, a community, or a mission rather than private advantage alone.
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