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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. Aquinas claims that _________________ observes, categorizes, and determines what would be harmful and what would be helpful to an entity, person, or organism.

2. The Second Article concerns whether the intellect is a purely _________ power or not.

3. The next set of questions are focused on what issue?

4. In Chapter XVI: That the End of Everything is a Good, the end is viewed as what?

5. Aquinas goes back to pre-Socratic times and the observation that the system is rooted in motion, which ___________ certainty.

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Aquinas say about the tendency of all things being like unto God?

2. What does Aquinas say when he discusses how the soul while united to the body understands corporeal things beneath it?

3. What does Aquinas say about whether we can understand many things at the same time?

4. What does Aquinas say about choice and how it is an act of the will in relation to the means to an end?

5. What are the four articles in response to Question LXII?

6. What does Aquinas say about the difference between irascible and concupiscence?

7. What comparisons are made regarding arguments that would seem to prove that God cannot be seen in His essence and their solution?

8. How does Aquinas see individuating qualities?

9. What does Aquinas say about God being the end of things?

10. How does Aquinas respond in the First Article to the question of whether the intellectual and the soul are one and the same?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Question 12 is in regards to intention.

Part 1) What is intention? What are four questions asked in regards to intention? What is the purpose of each?

Part 2) How are other aspects of Aquinas' theories incorporated into the questioning and answers pertaining to intention? Why?

Part 3) What is the message of this portion of the book? With what does Aquinas want the reader to come away?

Essay Topic 2

St. Thomas Aquinas' work was severely challenged by powerful Arabian philosophy.

Part 1) How did Arabian philosophy become so powerful? Why did it challenge Aquinas' own philosophies?

Part 2) How did Aquinas deal with such challenges to his own philosophies? What aspects about his upbringing and personality aid him in this?

Part 3) What other philosophies and thinkers challenged Aquinas? Why? How does he handle these disagreements in this book? How does this affect the way that he expresses his ideas?

Essay Topic 3

Grace is the final subject in this book.

Part 1) What is grace? Why is it the final subject? Is it the last subject on purpose? Why or why not?

Part 2) What is the connection between grace and love? What does Aquinas believe about the importance of grace and love in regards to each other?

Part 3) What does Aquinas believe about grace in regards to sin? Is grace important for a man to rise from sin? Why or why not? Do you agree? Why or why not?

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