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Vision Or Exemplification? Augustine And Aquinas On Divine Illumination, Matthew Richard Cain Jan 2025

Vision Or Exemplification? Augustine And Aquinas On Divine Illumination, Matthew Richard Cain

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Many interpreters of Thomas Aquinas since the second half of the twentieth-century emphasise the Platonist dimensions of his thought, particularly his metaphysics. This contrasts with, and is a shift away from, the dominant Aristotelian interpretations of previous generations. Aquinas’s theory of knowledge, however, tends still to be interpreted in Aristotelian terms, according to which Augustine’s Platonist illuminationism is replaced by a Peripatetic emphasis on sensation and abstraction in the soul.

This thesis reexamines the role of illumination in Augustine and Aquinas’ theories of knowledge. It asks whether scholarship today ought to reconceive the relationship between these two major thinkers in …


The Wellbeing Experiences Of Newly Employed Teachers At High-Fee-Paying, Independent, Pre-Kindergarten To Year 12 Schools In Perth, Western Austalia, Helen Mary Aguiar Jan 2025

The Wellbeing Experiences Of Newly Employed Teachers At High-Fee-Paying, Independent, Pre-Kindergarten To Year 12 Schools In Perth, Western Austalia, Helen Mary Aguiar

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The purpose of this research was to explore the wellbeing experiences of newly employed teachers at high-fee-paying, independent, Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12 schools in Perth, Western Australia. The research explored two factors: experiences that enhance teacher wellbeing and experiences that diminish the wellbeing of newly employed teachers in these schools.

The review of literature highlighted four areas that formed the conceptual framework for the thesis. These four areas were the role of the teacher, wellbeing defined, the factors enhancing teacher wellbeing and the factors diminishing teacher wellbeing. These areas led to the development of the primary research question and the …