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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. How many objections and replies exist in Third Article: Whether Choice is Only of the Means to the End or Sometimes also of the End?

2. Angels consist of ____________ only.

3. What does Aquinas differentiate between in the First Article?

4. The statement in number 137 is _______________ his other point that action is what manifests essence.

5. What do both contemplation and action contain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Aquinas say in the Second Article, regarding whether the intellect is a purely passive power or not?

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

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 we can understand many things at the same time?

10. How does Aquinas see individuating qualities?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The question is asked whether there is power in God.

Part 1) What does Aquinas mean by power? How does this support his belief about whether there is power in God? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 2) How is God's power reflected in humanity and the idea of unity?

Part 3) How does the discussion of God's power lead to questions about his omnipotence? How does Aquinas' view of God's power reinforce his beliefs about God's omnipotence?

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

Whether truth resides in only the intellect is one of the most important philosophical questions known to humanity.

Part 1) Why is this question so important? How is this question revealed and discussed in this book?

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?

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