One and Many


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1 The transcendental one, the Absolute, the unity of being, of nature, of the universe.
2 The relation of the one and the many, emanation of the many from the one.
3 The unity or duality of God and the world, the immanence and transcendence of God.
4 The one and the many in relation to the universal and the particular, the abstract and the concrete universal.
5 The modes of unity, comparison of numerical, essential, and divine unity.
6 Numerical unity or identity, the number one.
7 The unity of the indivisible or the simple, the individual thing, the point, the atom, the quality.
8 The complex unity of a whole composed of parts, the distinction between the indivisible and the undivided.
9 Kinds of wholes or complex unities.
10 Quantitative wholes, oneness in matter or motion.
11 The continuity of a quantitative whole.
12 The unity and divisibility of a motion.
13 The unity and divisibility of matter.
14 The unity and divisibility of time and space.
15 Natural or essential wholes, the oneness of a being or a nature The distinction between essential and accidental unity.
16 The comparison of the unity of natural things with man-made compositions or aggregations, artificial wholes.
17 The unity of a substance and of substantial form.
18 The unity of man as composite of body and soul, matter and spirit, extension and thought.
19 The unity of the human person or the self, the order of man's powers, the split personality.
20 Unity in the realm of mind, unity in thought or knowledge.
21 The unity of mind or intellect, the cognitive faculties, or consciousness.
22 The unity of sense-experience, the unity of attention, the transcendental unity of apperception.
23 Unity in thinking or understanding, the unity of complex ideas and definitions, the unity of the term, the judgment, and the syllogism.
24 The unity of science, the unity of particular sciences.
25 The one and the many, or the simple and the complex, as objects of knowledge, the order of learning with respect to wholes and parts.
26 The unity of knower and known, or of subject and object.
27 Unity in moral and political matters.
28 The unity of virtue and the many virtues.
29 The unity of the last end, the plurality of intermediate ends or means.
30 The unity of subjective will and objective morality in the ethical realm.
31 The unity of the family and the unity of the state, the limits of political or social unification.
32 The unity of sovereignty, its divisibility or indivisibility, the problem of federal union.
33 Unity in the supernatural order.
34 The unity and simplicity of God.
35 The unity of the Trinity.
36 The unity of the Incarnation.


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