Synderesis
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title:
Synderesis
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In scholastic moral philosophy, synderesis or synteresis is habitual knowledge of the universal practical principles of moral action. The reasoning process in the field of speculative science presupposes certain fundamental axioms on which all science rests. Such are the principle of contradiction, "a thing cannot be and not be at the same time," and self-evident truths like "the whole is greater than its part". These are the first principles of the speculative intellect. In the field of moral c
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The use of reason to intuitively discern truth
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date created:
2003-09-26T11:49:22Z
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2024-09-08T11:25:37Z
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