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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. ____________ ourselves and others is the healing force.

2. Referring to St. Augustine, Aquinas asserts that the human soul benefits from what?

3. Appetites are ______.

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

5. What description does Aquinas provide regarding whether the intellectual soul knows itself by its essence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Can violence be done to the will?

7. What does Aquinas say about choice and how it is an act of the will in relation to the means to an end?

8. What is important about action?

9. What does Aquinas say about agents and action?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Aquinas discusses the difference between moral and intellectual virtues.

Part 1) What is the difference? Is every virtue a moral one, according to Aquinas? Why or why not? Do you agree? Why or why not?

Part 2) What types of moral virtues exist? Why? Is there a significant difference between the different types of moral virtues? Why or why not?

Part 3) What is the overall message and purpose of Aquinas' discussion of morality and virtue?

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

Question 79 in Chapter 13 is in regards to the intellectual powers.

Part 1) Why does Aquinas seem to continue discussing a question that seems to have already been answered? What is added? Why?

Part 2) What does Aquinas say about angels and people? Why is this discussed? How does this relate to Question 79 in Chapter 13?

Part 3) What does Aquinas say about the type of power the intellect has? How does this relate to his other views about the intellect?

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