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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. Due to the answer to number 139, Aquinas claims that happiness ______________.

2. Aquinas also believes that humans do perceive the same principles when they use_______________ thought.

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

4. The Second Article is more intimately connected with Church doctrine: separating irascible from _____________.

5. How many objections and replies exist in the Fourth Article: Whether Choice is of Those Things Only That are Done By Us?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Aquinas see individuating qualities?

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

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

7. What is the purpose of an introduction to Saint Thomas Aquinas?

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

9. What does Aquinas say about agents and action?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Aquinas discusses the question of whether there is anything voluntary in human acts.

Part 1) What other questions does Aquinas ask regarding voluntary human acts? How does this relate to the idea of will?

Part 2) What does Aquinas say about one's will? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 3) How is intention connected to will? What is the connection between these and intellect? How do you believe one makes choices? Do you agree with Aquinas? Why or why not?

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