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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The truth or perception is that the living soul is the mind intimately associated with what?

2. What is a psychological purification process?

3. When was Summa Theologica written?

4. Abstract concepts are harder to name, especially for what reason?

5. The sixth article takes up the matter of the puzzle of whether the human soul is ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aquinas say about whether there is will in God?

2. What does Aquinas say about the First Article: Whether a Name Can be Given to God?

3. What are your thoughts on the layout of the Summa Theologica?

4. Describe the writing of the Summa Theologica.

5. When Aquinas turns to the debate format, what does he assume? What are the consequences of this?

6. What does Aquinas say about God's action and essence?

7. What is a Thomist?

8. How was Aquinas able to write this book successfully?

9. What does Aquinas say to the objections that the will of God must always be fulfilled?

10. What is Aquinas' response to Question LXXV On Man who is Composed of a Spiritual and a Corporeal Substance: And First, Concerning What Belongs to the Essence of the Soul?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One set of questions in the text is focused on the issue of law.

Part 1) What laws is Aquinas discussing? What are four questions being asked about law? Why is each asked?

Part 2) What different types of laws exist? Compare them to one another.

Part 3) What is the purpose of discussing laws? How does it reflect and reinforce other topics discussed in this book?

Essay Topic 2

Aquinas discusses the difference between moral and intellectual virtues.

Part 1) What is the difference? Is every virtue a moral one, according to Aquinas? Why or why not? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 2) What types of moral virtues exist? Why? Is there a significant difference between the different types of moral virtues? Why or why not?

Part 3) What is the overall message and purpose of Aquinas' discussion of morality and virtue?

Essay Topic 3

Question 87 discusses whether the intellectual soul knows itself and all that is within itself.

Part 1) How are angels used to support Aquinas' response to this? Is this valid? Why or why not?

Part 2) Can an individual know itself and all that is with itself? Why or why not? Do you feel that you know much about yourself? Explain.

Part 3) How do discoveries and other information learned today support Aquinas' beliefs regarding the knowledge of the soul about itself?

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