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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. The intellect gives virtue and power to the soul, but is the intellect the soul in and of itself?

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

4. The Fourth Article emphasizes the immaterial nature of ______________.

5. God cannot be the end of things as though He were something effected, but only as ______________.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Aquinas say about agents and action?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Aquinas believe about the human mind?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A lot is said about man who is composed of a spiritual and a corporeal substance.

Part 1) What is meant to have spiritual substance and corporeal substance? How is this idea of two substances supported by Aquinas?

Part 2) How does this belief in both substances relate to the soul? How do these substances affect the soul's corruptibility? Why?

Part 3) How might a reader's knowledge today of biology and neuroscience affect one's ability to believe Aquinas' ideas?

Essay Topic 2

Aquinas says that all things are directed to one end, which is God.

Part 1) How does he support this belief? Is this valid support? Why or why not?

Part 2) How do his previously-discussed beliefs lead up to support this belief?

Part 3) How does this idea influence Aquinas' beliefs about humanity, the soul, and truth?

Essay Topic 3

Aquinas discusses the existence of God.

Part 1) What does Aquinas say about God? How are his philosophies affected by his view of God?

Part 2) How do his beliefs about God reflect and reinforce the importance of the soul and the spiritual work conducted by an individual during his or her lifetime?

Part 3) Aquinas believes Scripture can be used as evidence. Do you agree? Why or why not?

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