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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 essence of an angel is knowledge and what else?

2. Aquinas introduces the idea of one mind. Is every event of the mind the same mind in action?

3. Whether the intellectual principle is multiplied according to the number of bodies has to do with what?

4. When is man's ultimate happiness, according to Aquinas?

5. What is the First Article of Question 58, On the Difference Between Moral and Intellectual Virtues?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Aquinas claim in Chapter XLVII That in this Life We Are Unable to See God in His Essence?

3. What does the matter of whether the essence of the soul is its power involve?

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

5. What does Aquinas claim is the behavior of the majority of human action?

6. What is the analogy Aquinas uses in regards to God and all things being directed to one end?

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

8. Can one person understand one and the same thing better than another can?

9. What does Aquinas say about whether the intellectual soul knows itself by its essence?

10. Can violence be done to the will?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Question XVII in Chapter 4 concerns falsity.

Part 1) How does this relate to the questions about truth? How do these questions about both truth and falsity relate to intellect? Why?

Part 2) What is Aquinas' response to this question? How does this book reflect this response?

Part 3) Why does Aquinas feel the way he does about this question? What do you believe about this question?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

There are two major thinkers other than Aquinas who the author most frequently names.

Part 1) Who are these thinkers? Describe them.

Part 2) Why are they included in this book? How do they support and/or challenge Aquinas' work? How does he deal with this?

Part 3) Why other thinkers are mentioned? Why? How does he use the ideas of these philosophers to benefit his own ideas?

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