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absolute advantage, theory of, 208
absolute freedom, 104
Absolute Idea, 180
Absolutism/Absolutist, 20, 187-188
Academy (Plato’s), 56, 60
accent, 34-35, 36
accident, 36-37, 43
aesthetic contemplation, 97
affected ignorance, 51
aggregate demand, 229, 230-231
Albertus Magnus, 72
“Allegory of the Cave,” 57-58, 140
alternative syllogism, 30
amphiboly, 33-34, 36
anarchy, 132, 148
antecedent passion, 51-52
apathy, 69
a posteriori, 48-49, 93
“appetites and aversions,” 161, 164
a priori, 48, 91
Aquinas, St. Thomas, 49, 53, 72-78,
151-155
existence of God, 76-77
laws, 4 types, 75-76, 153-154
reason, types of, 76
the state, 151, 154
writings, 72, 151
argument from degrees of being, 77
argument from design, 77
argument from efficient cause, 77
argument from motion, 76-77
argument from necessity, 77
argumentum ad baculum, 41
argumentum ad hominem, 40-41


argumentum ad ignorantium, 42
argumentum ad misericordium, 41
argumentum adpopulum, 41-42
argumentum ad verecundium, 41
aristocracy, 143, 172, 173
Aristotelian philosophy, 72,73, 77-78,
79
Aristotle, 15, 32,49, 53, 56,60-64, 72,
73,78,81,117,120,141-145, 151,
154, 248, 252, 253
criticism of Plato, 142
governmental organization, 142-143
governmental purpose, 143, 176
law, 144-145
moral act, qualities of, 49-50
political philosophy, 141-145
reason, 77-78
writings, 47, 61, 141, 151
Arrian, 69
artificial monopolies, 206
ascendant nations, concept of, 180
association, forms of (Hume), 83
ataraxia, 67
attitudes, formation of, 3-11
Augustine, Saint, 131, 146-150, 152
concept of the will, 147
on the nature of man, 147
the state, 147-149
writings, 146
Austrian school of economics, 241
authority, 132-133

“bad faith,” 106
begging the question, 38, 43

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