Question 1

Turning away from the empirical world and entering a union with the eternal things that dwell beyond the world of the flesh was characteristic of the good life for:

Accepted Answer

A)  Zeno of Citium
B)  Epicurus
C)  Diogenes
D)  PlotinusE) All of the above
F) A) and B)

Question 2

Thomas Aquinas attempted to reconcile faith and reason.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Aristotle's emphasis on ____ placed the church in a difficult position.

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A)  faith
B)  the supernatural
C)  reason
D)  Plato's philosophyE) A) and B)
F) B) and C)

Question 4

Discuss the Christian philosophy of St.Augustine and its influence.

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Question 5

The fact that St.Paul ____ would have been abhorrent to most Greek philosophers.

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A)  valued faith above reason
B)  valued reason above faith
C)  valued intuition above empirical observation
D)  valued Epicureanism above StoicismE) B) and C)
F) C) and D)

Question 6

According to St.Augustine,evil exists because:

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A)  God created it to test the faith of humans
B)  humans chose it
C)  at times the devil is more powerful than God
D)  humans are basically animalsE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 7

Epicurus believed all of the following except:

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A)  the goal of life was happiness
B)  people should avoid excesses
C)  the soul left the body at death and was judged by God
D)  reason and choice had to be exercised in order to live a balanced lifeE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 8

Describe St.Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God.

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Question 9

Discuss Thomas Aquinas' contribution and influence.

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Aquinas synthesized Aristotle's works an...

Question 10

Once Aristotle's ideas were assimilated into church dogma,they were:

Accepted Answer

A)  less important
B)  no longer challengeable
C)  completely understood
D)  considered supernaturalE) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 11

All of the following agreed that there was a higher truth beyond any that could be experienced through the senses (though they disagreed as to what that higher truth was) except:

Accepted Answer

A)  the Pythagoreans
B)  Plato
C)  the Scholastics
D)  the nominalistsE) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 12

The main target of the skeptics was dogmatism.A dogmatist is anyone who:

Accepted Answer

A)  equates essences with verbal definitions
B)  confuses names with real things
C)  claims to have arrived at an indisputable truth
D)  lives a life of excess instead of moderationE) A) and D)
F) All of the above

Question 13

The Scholastics made ____ contributions to philosophy and psychology.

Accepted Answer

A)  many significant
B)  a few significant
C)  essentially no significant
D)  a large number of minorE) B) and C)
F) A) and C)

Question 14

This person preferred naturalistic explanations to supernatural ones and earned the title,"Destroyer of Religion".

Accepted Answer

A)  Antisthenes
B)  Gorgias
C)  Diogenes
D)  EpicurusE) All of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 15

Which of the following did occur during the Dark Ages ?

Accepted Answer

A)  the Christian church became increasingly weak
B)  the dogma of the Christian church became challengeable
C)  Arab philosophy,science,and theology flourished
D)  in the Western world the question concerning what is true became very important to determineE) None of the above
F) A) and C)

Question 16

St.Augustine did not agree with the doctrine of predestination.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotle's philosophy was called scholasticism.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

The major assumption made in the ontological argument for the existence of God is:

Accepted Answer

A)  one can find God by studying nature
B)  faith and reason are essentially the same process
C)  if one can think of something,it must exist
D)  the Aristotelian conception of God is the only correct conception of GodE) A) and B)
F) None of the above

Question 19

The person who discovered that the retina,not the lens,is the light sensitive part of the eye and that inoculation might prevent disease was:

Accepted Answer

A)  Avicenna
B)  Averroës
C)  Maimonides
D)  St.AnselmE) None of the above
F) C) and D)

Question 20

Aristotle's philosophy was highly influential in ____ during the so-called Dark Ages.

Accepted Answer

A)  the Western world
B)  the Roman Empire
C)  the Arab world
D)  AlexandriaE) All of the above
F) C) and D)

Exam 3: After Aristotle: A Search for the Good Life

Describe St.Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God.

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The fact that St.Paul ____ would have been abhorrent to most Greek philosophers.

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Thomas Aquinas attempted to reconcile faith and reason.

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The Scholastics made ____ contributions to philosophy and psychology.

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All of the following agreed that there was a higher truth beyond any that could be experienced through the senses (though they disagreed as to what that higher truth was) except:

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Aristotle's emphasis on ____ placed the church in a difficult position.

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The synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotle's philosophy was called scholasticism.

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According to St.Augustine,evil exists because:

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Once Aristotle's ideas were assimilated into church dogma,they were:

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The major assumption made in the ontological argument for the existence of God is:

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St.Augustine did not agree with the doctrine of predestination.

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This person preferred naturalistic explanations to supernatural ones and earned the title,"Destroyer of Religion".

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Discuss Thomas Aquinas' contribution and influence.

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Turning away from the empirical world and entering a union with the eternal things that dwell beyond the world of the flesh was characteristic of the good life for:

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The person who discovered that the retina,not the lens,is the light sensitive part of the eye and that inoculation might prevent disease was:

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The main target of the skeptics was dogmatism.A dogmatist is anyone who:

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Discuss the Christian philosophy of St.Augustine and its influence.

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