Augsutune/Aquinas

Question 1

What were the 3 lessons Augustine learned in his childhood?

Answer 1

1.GRATITUDE: sin is done simply for the sake of doing something forbidden

2.PRIDE: pride is committed when you resist that no one is going to tell you want you can and cannot do

3.PEER PRESSURE: a group puts more pressure on you to commit sin,

Question 2

Why was he perplexed by evil ?

Answer 2

Christianity claimed that God was perfectly good and all powerful, if this is the case then ,

why is there evil in the world?

Why won’t God get rid of evil?

Question 3

What was Augustine noted for?

Answer 3

One of the most celebrated figures of church history as both Catholic and Protestant Catholics praise him for his work in the realms of Christian theology and philosophy

Question 4

What is an apologist?

Answer 4

Someone who defends faith

Question 5

Who was Augustine influenced by?

Answer 5

Was influenced by followers of Plato called NEO-PLANTONIST

Question 6

What did the neo-plantonist believe in?

Answer 6

Believed in on infinite being, that he can find happiness than philosophy, and our soul govern bodies

Question 7

What was Augustines main concept?

Answer 7

Augustine said although we may think we need to completely understand a concept, before he come to believe, WE DONT.

We just need faith in God

Question 8

Augustine encouraged people to worship the ___ opposed to ____

Answer 8

The creator

The creation

Question 9

How did Augustine advance the biblical concept of original sin?

Answer 9

Augustine proposed that we are only served by God’s grace

Question 10

For wisdom, Augustine believes that ___, ___, __, ___, __, __, are bound together

Answer 10

Philosophy
Theology
Understanding
Faith
Science
Religion

Question 11

What did Augustine say about happiness?

Answer 11

For Augustine, he understood that the soul will be happy once it possesses what it must desired

1.You cannot be happy without what you most desire HOWEVER WHAT YOU DESIRE MAY NOT ACTUALLY BE “good” (Eg: drugs, partying, alcohol)

2. What makes you happy must last NON MATERIAL

Question 12

3 things augustine knows for certain

Answer 12

1. I exist
2. I know I exist
3. I am glad of this existence

Question 13

What did Augustine say about truth?

Answer 13

Without absolute truth = nothing can be known

Question 14

What is hierarchy truth ?

Answer 14

Whatever is the accurate description of the truth is better than inaccurate

Truth exists so you can always get closer to the truth

Question 15

What is hierarchy of being?

Answer 15

Rocks < plants < animals < humans

Therefore the “creator” must be superior to all

Question 16

What is Augustine’s argument for the logical existence of God?

Answer 16

① nothing is superior to God
② truth exists and is super to us
③ if nothing is superior to truth
God = the truth
God = exists

Question 17

What did Aquinas say: believed ___ and ___ were separate

Answer 17

Essence & existence

Question 18

Every existing thing is ____

Answer 18

A joint of form + matter

Question 19

Aquinas claims God’s existence is ____

Answer 19

Pure existence

Question 20

What is hylomorphism?

Answer 20

The double composition of matter: form & matter

Question 21

Give an example of form and matter in a horse?

Answer 21

FORM: what makes it a horse
MATTER: what makes it a particular horse

Question 22

What is Aquinas’s first efficient cause?

Answer 22

According to Aquinas, all composite, finite things are contingent on efficient causes (something externally to bring them into existence)

Only a being whose essence is existence can be the first cause of all efficient causes to explain everything in the created world

Question 23

What were Thomas’s 5 ways of God’s Existence JUST LIST? MCCPI

Answer 23

① order of motion in nature
② cause & effect
③ contingent beings
④ degrees of perfection
⑤ things w/o intelligence act for the sake of ends

Question 24

EXPLAIN: ① order of motion in nature

Answer 24

There must be a first mover / unmoved mover in order for things to change

Question 25

EXPLAIN: ② cause & effect

Answer 25

In order for there to be causes at work, there must be a first case or uncaused cause

Question 26

EXPLAIN: ③ contingent beings

Answer 26

Things exist that don’t need to exist → then there must be a source of the existence of contingent beings that cannot not exist

Question 27

EXPLAIN: ④ degrees of perfection

Answer 27

Because then are different degrees of perfection, there must therton be one perfect being

Question 28

EXPLAIN: ⑤ things w/o intelligence act for the sake of ends

Answer 28

Things w/o intelligence cannot work for the sake of ends unless a greater being is guiding them

Question 29

What is the scholastic method?

Answer 29

Begins with possible question and then a list of possible conflicting answers are presented

Each unsure is then evaluated and a final judgement of each cisner is then provided

Question 30

What are the 3 reasons?

Answer 30

① human reason: truth known by human reason alone

② Divine relation alone: truths known by divine relation alone

③ human & divine relation: things that can be known by both reason and faith

Question 31

What does ASLEM’S ONTOLOGICAL argument state?

Answer 31

① God is which there no greater can be convicted

② if the greatest being lacks existence, then it would not be the greatest being → therefore God exists

Question 32

Why does Aquinas disagree with Aslem’s point?

Answer 32

Aquinas says God’s existence is his existence
This being, this existing, this energy or source cannot be another thing.

Aquino’s says God = a great unlimited activity of existing

Question 33

What does univocal mean?

Answer 33

Word only has 1 nearing

Question 34

What does equivocally mean?

Answer 34

Word has more than 1meaning

Question 35

What is analogy ?

Answer 35

Words we use to help us understand and describe God