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Giovanni Boteros (1544-1617) treatise <i>The Reason of State</i> (1589) seemed somewhat uncharacteristic of sixteenth-century political thought, considering the pride of place given to economics in his text. The Age of Reformation constituted not only a period of new ideas on faith but also one of new political thinking, and as the research into the influences on Boteros economic thought progressed, I began to consider the period as one where economic thinking was becoming more common among theologians of the reforming churches and bureaucrats of the developing states. Having been trained in the schools of the Jesuits, Botero was exposed to one of the most potent and intellectually uniform of all the reforming movements of the period, and I argue it was here that he first considered economics as an aspect of moral philosophy. While it cannot be proven positively that Botero studied or even considered economics during his association with the Jesuits (roughly from 1559-1580), the fact that a number of those who shaped the Jesuit Order in its first few generations discussed economics in their own treatises leads one to a strong circumstantial conclusion that this is where the economic impulse first rose up in his thinking. Indeed, it was this background that readied Botero to consider economics as an important part of statecraft with his reading of Jean Bodins (1530-1596) <i>The Six Books of the Republic</i> (1576), in which economics is featured quite prominently. Bodins own economic theory was informed primarily by his experience as a bureaucrat in the Parlement of Paris, where questions on the value of the currency and on the kings ability to tax his subjects were in constant debate among the advocates. I argue further that, upon his reading of Bodins <i>Republic</i>, Botero saw how economics could be fused with politics, and he then set out to compose his own treatise on political economy (although he certainly would not have called it such). In <i>The Reason of State</i>, Botero brought his Jesuit conception of economic morality together with Bodins writings on political economy to create a work, neither wholly Jesuit nor wholly Bodinian, which in the end outlined an overall political and economic structure of society quite distinct from the sum of its parts.

Giovanni Boteros (1544-1617) treatise <i>The Reason of State</i> (1589) seemed somewhat uncharacteristic of sixteenth-century political thought, considering the pride of place given to economics in his text. The Age of Reformation constituted not only a period of new ideas on faith but also one of new political thinking, and as the research into the influences on Boteros economic thought progressed, I began to consider the period as one where economic thinking was becoming more common among theologians of the reforming churches and bureaucrats of the developing states. Having been trained in the schools of the Jesuits, Botero was exposed to one of the most potent and intellectually uniform of all the reforming movements of the period, and I argue it was here that he first considered economics as an aspect of moral philosophy. While it cannot be proven positively that Botero studied or even considered economics during his association with the Jesuits (roughly from 1559-1580), the fact that a number of those who shaped the Jesuit Order in its first few generations discussed economics in their own treatises leads one to a strong circumstantial conclusion that this is where the economic impulse first rose up in his thinking. Indeed, it was this background that readied Botero to consider economics as an important part of statecraft with his reading of Jean Bodins (1530-1596) <i>The Six Books of the Republic</i> (1576), in which economics is featured quite prominently. Bodins own economic theory was informed primarily by his experience as a bureaucrat in the Parlement of Paris, where questions on the value of the currency and on the kings ability to tax his subjects were in constant debate among the advocates. I argue further that, upon his reading of Bodins <i>Republic</i>, Botero saw how economics could be fused with politics, and he then set out to compose his own treatise on political economy (although he certainly would not have called it such). In <i>The Reason of State</i>, Botero brought his Jesuit conception of economic morality together with Bodins writings on political economy to create a work, neither wholly Jesuit nor wholly Bodinian, which in the end outlined an overall political and economic structure of society quite distinct from the sum of its parts.

The thesis focuses on Aristotelian-Thomist ethics system. In mainly deals with the differences in concept of beatitude, good and related issues, like the science of virtues. The emphasis is placed on understanding and covering the differences in aproach of St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotele to these ethical topics. Firs the thesis characterises the main issue in Nicomachean Ethics, then outlines the thoughts and ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas in his Commentary, with emphasis on its diference from Aristoteles teachings. First three chapters are therefore the more descriptive part of the thesis, which is based on both primary and secondary textual sources. The fourth chapter is, then, the crucial, practical part, that summarizes St. Thomas theses and ideas concerning beatitude, good and happiness, coming from his unrivaled Commentary on the Ethics.

This thesis deals with the objective and subjective cognition of beauty by a scholastic philosopher Thomas Aquinas. The initial chapters provide historical sources and a source of St. Thomas´s beauty, because beauty was not the main topic of theology and philosophy in the Middle Ages. From the definition of beauty, we know that beauty belongs to the cognitive power, thus next chapters present the activity of the senses and reason, by which we recognize beauty. (Pulchrum autem respicit vim cognoscitivam). This cognitive power results in the objective characteristics of beauty, ie.: a) integrity; b) proportion; c) clarity.) The penultimate chapter justifies the importance of knowledge of objective and subjective beauty, from which it follows in us enjoyment (delectatio et amor). If there is a reason to evaluate the knowledge and principles relating to the beauty, there is a necessary overlap present knowledge such as science. The final chapter addresses the interesting question of modern science - aesthetics: "Whether beauty, as written by Thomas Aquinas, is a specific distinct transcendental or only implicit transcendental initiated by the philosophers of the 20th century?" The thesis tries to show the importance of studying medieval philosophy in shaping topics such as beauty and art.

A presente dissertação investiga a interpretação de Tomás de Aquino ao problema dos futuros contingentes, relativo ao capítulo 9 do tratado De Interpretatione, de Aristóteles. O objetivo central é explicar qual a função do termo "determinate" na interpretação de Tomás. Para isso, reconstrói a noção aristotélica de proposição como uma atividade enunciativa, assim como investiga o Livro Gama da Metafísica, o qual defende os princípios de não contradição e terceiro excluído. Nesse percurso, chama a atenção para o fato de que, do ponto de vista da proposição, as formulações sintáticas dos princípios metafísicos são primeiras em relação às semânticas. Com isso, pretende identificar uma distinção entre as condições de sentido de uma proposição e a atribuição de um valor verdade e, através de tal distinção, propõe uma leitura para a solução de Tomás de Aquino ao problema referido. Conclui que a oposição contraditória como exclusiva e exaustiva é uma tese logicamente anterior à caracterização da proposição como bivalente ou determinadamente verdadeira ou falsa. / This dissertation investigates the interpretation of Thomas Aquinas to the problem of future contingents, concerning the chapter 9 of Aristotle's De Interpretatione. The main goal is to explain what is the function of the term "determinate" on Aquinas's interpretation. For that reason, the dissertation intends to reconstruct Aristotle's notion of proposition as an enunciating activity, as well as to investigate the Book Gamma of Metaphysics, which defends the principles of non-contradiction and excluded middle. During that reasoning, it turns the attention to the fact that, from the proposition's point of view, the syntactic formulations of the metaphysical principles are prior to the semantic ones. Thereby, it claims to identify a distinction between the sense conditions of a proposition and the attribution of a truth value and, as a result of that distinction, it proposes a reading of Aquinas's solution to the abovementioned problem. It concludes that the contradictory opposition as excluding and exhausting is a thesis logically prior to the characterization of a proposition as bivalent or determinately true or false.

Heterodox master of liberal arts and theirs discussions with Thomas Aquinas Mgr. Miroslav Severa Summary: The proposed thesis deals with two important issues discussed by Tomas Aquinas in connection with the averroistic controversy that occurred in the second half of the thirteenth century in Paris. The topics are On the eternity of the world and On the unity of intellect. Its author defends the position that concerning the problem On the eternity of the Word is the solution proposed by Thomas Aquinas closer to the position of heterodox masters of liberal arts then to the attitude of some orthodox theologians. The heterodox teaching On the unity of intellect is by Thomas sufficiently disproven. The doctrine of Thomas Aquinas doesn't need to always constitute an irreconcilable antithesis against the attitude of heterodox masters as it is described by some authors. The thesis also deals the two topics on the historical background of the condemnations issued by the Parisian bishop Stephan Tempier in the years 1270 and 1277. Although the heterodox masters of liberal arts are in their philosophizing strongly influenced by the Arab philosopher Averroes theirs position concerning the relationship between fides and ratio is different. Averroes says that when the conflict between reason and revelation occurs than...

This thesis is engaged in the theme of natural law, especially in sources of natural law - in theories, which are labelled as "classic". The thesis focuses on these theories (Aristotle, stoicism, Thomas Aquinas) and their common points, which are proper to these theories. That is the object of this thesis. These points present the essence of natural law. The first part explains problem of the term "natural law". The second part deals with the classic theories. The third chapter summarises findings of the second part. The fourth part is devoted to the similarity between the classic theories and the modern (enlightenment) theories. This chapter is devoted to the connection between natural law and positive law too.

A presente dissertação investiga a interpretação de Tomás de Aquino ao problema dos futuros contingentes, relativo ao capítulo 9 do tratado De Interpretatione, de Aristóteles. O objetivo central é explicar qual a função do termo "determinate" na interpretação de Tomás. Para isso, reconstrói a noção aristotélica de proposição como uma atividade enunciativa, assim como investiga o Livro Gama da Metafísica, o qual defende os princípios de não contradição e terceiro excluído. Nesse percurso, chama a atenção para o fato de que, do ponto de vista da proposição, as formulações sintáticas dos princípios metafísicos são primeiras em relação às semânticas. Com isso, pretende identificar uma distinção entre as condições de sentido de uma proposição e a atribuição de um valor verdade e, através de tal distinção, propõe uma leitura para a solução de Tomás de Aquino ao problema referido. Conclui que a oposição contraditória como exclusiva e exaustiva é uma tese logicamente anterior à caracterização da proposição como bivalente ou determinadamente verdadeira ou falsa. / This dissertation investigates the interpretation of Thomas Aquinas to the problem of future contingents, concerning the chapter 9 of Aristotle's De Interpretatione. The main goal is to explain what is the function of the term "determinate" on Aquinas's interpretation. For that reason, the dissertation intends to reconstruct Aristotle's notion of proposition as an enunciating activity, as well as to investigate the Book Gamma of Metaphysics, which defends the principles of non-contradiction and excluded middle. During that reasoning, it turns the attention to the fact that, from the proposition's point of view, the syntactic formulations of the metaphysical principles are prior to the semantic ones. Thereby, it claims to identify a distinction between the sense conditions of a proposition and the attribution of a truth value and, as a result of that distinction, it proposes a reading of Aquinas's solution to the abovementioned problem. It concludes that the contradictory opposition as excluding and exhausting is a thesis logically prior to the characterization of a proposition as bivalent or determinately true or false.

A presente dissertação investiga a interpretação de Tomás de Aquino ao problema dos futuros contingentes, relativo ao capítulo 9 do tratado De Interpretatione, de Aristóteles. O objetivo central é explicar qual a função do termo "determinate" na interpretação de Tomás. Para isso, reconstrói a noção aristotélica de proposição como uma atividade enunciativa, assim como investiga o Livro Gama da Metafísica, o qual defende os princípios de não contradição e terceiro excluído. Nesse percurso, chama a atenção para o fato de que, do ponto de vista da proposição, as formulações sintáticas dos princípios metafísicos são primeiras em relação às semânticas. Com isso, pretende identificar uma distinção entre as condições de sentido de uma proposição e a atribuição de um valor verdade e, através de tal distinção, propõe uma leitura para a solução de Tomás de Aquino ao problema referido. Conclui que a oposição contraditória como exclusiva e exaustiva é uma tese logicamente anterior à caracterização da proposição como bivalente ou determinadamente verdadeira ou falsa. / This dissertation investigates the interpretation of Thomas Aquinas to the problem of future contingents, concerning the chapter 9 of Aristotle's De Interpretatione. The main goal is to explain what is the function of the term "determinate" on Aquinas's interpretation. For that reason, the dissertation intends to reconstruct Aristotle's notion of proposition as an enunciating activity, as well as to investigate the Book Gamma of Metaphysics, which defends the principles of non-contradiction and excluded middle. During that reasoning, it turns the attention to the fact that, from the proposition's point of view, the syntactic formulations of the metaphysical principles are prior to the semantic ones. Thereby, it claims to identify a distinction between the sense conditions of a proposition and the attribution of a truth value and, as a result of that distinction, it proposes a reading of Aquinas's solution to the abovementioned problem. It concludes that the contradictory opposition as excluding and exhausting is a thesis logically prior to the characterization of a proposition as bivalent or determinately true or false.