Deck 8: The Scholar: Thomas Aquinas

Question 1

Theology is from the Greek for "trust" and "God."

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Christianity began with persons who anticipated the Second Coming.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Aurelius Augustine has been described as a "colossus."

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Augustine was a Platonist.

Question 5

Augustine was a fierce debater.

Question 6

Ambrose baptized Augustine.

Question 7

Ambrose was the Bishop of Rome

Question 8

Augustine was an Epicurean.

Question 9

The Stoic's faith is in himself.

Question 10

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

Question 11

B.C. Johnson said that no one can have justifiable faith in the goodness of a God who allowed atrocities to occur.

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

Augustine was a bishop.

Question 15

Augustine wrote the Confessions .

Question 16

Aquinas was born near Naples.

Question 17

Christian theology is sometimes represented as otherworldly.

Question 18

Augustine lived a wanton life until he was 33.

Question 19

Augustine wrote an autobiography.

Question 20

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

Question 21

The First Way is

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

Question 22

Albertus Magnus was called the Universal Preacher.

Question 23

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

Question 24

What does the Principle of Plenitude assume?

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

Question 25

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

Question 26

The Unmoved Mover is part of the argument from

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

Question 27

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 28

Aquinas was a Dominican monk.

Question 29

The Crusades made a huge quantity of learning available.

Question 30

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

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

Question 31

By "natural," Aquinas meant

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

Question 32

What book was central to the Scholastic project?

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

Question 33

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

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

Question 34

Aquinas was known as "the Dumb Ox."

Question 35

Benedictine monks tended to establish monasteries in the country.

Question 36

Aquinas was known for the excellence of his handwriting.

Question 37

Which principle does the Third Way rely on?

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

Question 38

Aquinas attended the Council of Lyons.

Question 39

The Dominicans were known as the Order of Apostles.

Question 40

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

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

Question 41

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

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

Question 42

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

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

Question 43

What is the Fourth Way?

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

Question 44

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 45

The teleological argument is also called the argument from

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

Question 46

Who invented the term "the great chain of being"?

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

Question 47

Where was Augustine born?

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

Question 48

Of Aquinas's 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 49

The "argument from gradation" is another name for the

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

Question 50

What are religions, according to Santayana?

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

Question 51

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 52

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 53

What doctrine did Augustine think was worthy only of swine?

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

Question 54

Adeodatus's name means

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

Question 55

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

A) The problem of miracles
B) The problem of cause
C) The problem of evil
D) The problem of foresight

Question 56

Augustine did not reject

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

Question 57

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

Question 58

Manichean dualism is the view that

A) Mind and Body are separate
B) Souls inhabit bodies
C) God and Mortals are locked in combat
D) God and Satan are evenly matched in struggle

Question 59

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's arguments for the existence of God?

Question 60

The principles of reason are also called

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

Question 61

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?

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

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?