Deck 8: The Scholar: Thomas Aquinas

Question 1

Aurelius Augustine has been described as a colossus.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Augustine was an Epicurean.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Ambrose was the Bishop of Rome

Answer 3

False

Question 4

A dual-truth approach has been one attempt to reconcile faith with reason.

Question 5

Aquinas was born near Naples.

Question 6

Ambrose baptized Augustine.

Question 7

Theology is from the Greek for trust and God .

Question 8

Augustine lived a wanton life until he was 33.

Question 9

Augustine wrote the Confessions .

Question 10

Augustine wrote an autobiography.

Question 11

The Stoic s faith is in himself.

Question 12

The Christian religion arose immediately after the birth of Jesus Christ.

Question 13

Christianity began with persons who anticipated the Second Coming.

Question 14

The medieval scholar tried to explain what God chose to reveal.

Question 15

Augustine wrote the Poisindex .

Question 16

Augustine was a Platonist.

Question 17

Augustine was a bishop.

Question 18

The law of contradiction is also known as the law of noncontradiction.

Question 19

There is a clash between Christian culture and the culture of ancient Greece.

Question 20

Augustine was a fierce debater.

Question 21

Aquinas was known for the excellence of his handwriting.

Question 22

Aquinas was known as the Dumb Ox.

Question 23

The argument from necessity is based on the claim that there are how many classes of things?

A) 2
B) 4
C) 3
D) 5

Question 24

Aquinas received a master s degree from the University of Paris.

Question 25

What book was central to the Scholastic project?

A) Confessions
B) Apology
C) Bible
D) Talmud

Question 26

Which principle does the Third Way rely on?

A) Sufficient reason
B) Cause and effect
C) Natural law
D) Divine goodness

Question 27

Aquinas attended the Council of Lyons.

Question 28

Aquinas was a Dominican monk.

Question 29

Rene J. Muller held that science has not killed God.

Question 30

Albertus Magnus was called the Universal Preacher.

Question 31

The Dominicans were known as the Order of Apostles.

Question 32

The Crusades made a huge quantity of learning available.

Question 33

How many proofs did Aquinas offer for the existence of God?

A) 2
B) 3
C) 5
D) 7

Question 34

The Unmoved Mover is part of the argument from

A) Cause
B) Motion
C) Design
D) Necessity

Question 35

Benedictine monks tended to establish monasteries in the country.

Question 36

What does the Principle of Plenitude assume?

A) Infinity
B) Finitude
C) God s goodness
D) God s existence

Question 37

The First Way is

A) Cause
B) Motion
C) Degree
D) Necessity

Question 38

By natural Aquinas meant

A) of this world
B) not from God
C) sloppy
D) creative

Question 39

What is the Principle that holds that any real possibility must occur?

A) Sufficient Reason
B) Plenitude
C) Divine Revelation
D) Design

Question 40

Which argument is based on Aristotle s notion of Efficient Cause?

A) Deontological
B) Design
C) Cosmological
D) Revelatory

Question 41

What are the connections between Aristotle s views of the universe and those of Aquinas? How do they differ? Which do you think is the more persuasive?

Question 42

The Argument from Gradation is another name for the

A) First Way
B) Second Way
C) Third Way
D) Fourth Way

Question 43

The teleological argument is also called the argument from

A) motion
B) soul
C) cause
D) design

Question 44

What are religions, according to Santayana?

A) Fairy-tales
B) Opiates
C) Sources of wisdom
D) Simple illusions

Question 45

The principles of reason are also called

A) The Five Ways
B) Rules of Engagement
C) Rules of Inference
D) Doctrines of Convergence

Question 46

Adeodatus name means

A) Chosen One
B) Gift from God
C) Born to Woman
D) Unexpected Joy

Question 47

What is the difference between a designed order and a spontaneous (or emerging) order? How might this difference be drawn upon by someone who wished critically to respond to Aquinas arguments for the existence of God?

Question 48

What doctrine did Augustine think was worthy only of swine?

A) Platonism
B) Stoicism
C) Epicureanism
D) Christianity

Question 49

What was evil, for Aquinas?

A) a privation of good
B) a source of wisdom
C) the lack of insight
D) positive quality of malice

Question 50

What Problem is a problem for any religion that asserts the existence of an all-powerful, all-wise, all-god God?

A) Problem of Miracles
B) Problem of Cause
C) Problem of Evil
D) Problem of Foresight

Question 51

What is the Fourth Way?

A) Motion
B) Degree
C) Necessity
D) Cause

Question 52

Where was Augustine born?

A) Thrace
B) Hippo
C) Tagaste
D) Florence

Question 53

Which State in 1999 ruled against requiring the teaching of evolution in science classes?

A) Texas
B) Louisiana
C) Kansas
D) Arkansas

Question 54

Of Aquinas arguments for the existence of God, which do you think is the most persuasive, and why? In answering this question it would be useful to outline (in brief) all of the arguments that Aquinas offered here.

Question 55

Who invented the term Principle of Plenitude ?

A) Aquinas
B) Aristotle
C) Lovejoy
D) Lovelock

Question 56

How are Aquinas first three arguments for the existence of God related? In answering this question you should outline all three of the arguments.

Question 57

Who provided the first evidence for organic life evolving from inorganic matter?

A) Muller
B) Miller
C) Milgram
D) Milhouse

Question 58

Augustine did not reject

A) Stoicism
B) Epicureanism
C) Christianity
D) Platonism

Question 59

Outline the Problem of Evil. For what type of religion is this a real problem? What are some possible solutions to it? Do you think that they are effective, or not?

Question 60

Augustine was Bishop of

A) Thrace
B) Florence
C) Athens
D) Hippo

Question 61

In what ways do the Christian view of the world and the role of philosophy and the Ancient Greek view of the world and the role of philosophy clash? Which do you believe is the better approach to take, and why? How might someone who disagrees with you respond?

Question 62

What was Augustine s view of Epicureanism? Do you think that this was a fair view to have of this doctrine? How might an Epicurean respond?

Question 63

Are Augustine and Epicurus engaged in the same philosophical project, or were they trying to answer different questions? How does your answer to this question bear on the view that there is a clash between pagan and Christian views? How does it bear on the criticisms that Augustine leveled against the Epicureans?