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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 Second Article is focused upon differentiating the sensitive and the intellectual appetites: are they different powers?

2. He writes that men [and women] judge others on the basis of what?

3. The Fifth Article about whether our intellect understands by composition and division makes it clear that composition and division of the intellect are made by ____________________.

4. What is the First Article of Question LXI: The Cardinal Virtues in five articles?

5. Aquinas claims that focus upon the spiritual means what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Aquinas say about differentiating the sensitive and and the intellectual appetites?

3. What are the six articles on the various kinds of law?

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

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

6. What does Aquinas believe about the human mind?

7. What is the first question pertaining to the issue of law?

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

9. Can violence be done to the will?

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

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

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 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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