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According to Aristotle what is not a source of movement?

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The Plant Soul

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According to Aristotle’s Physics the term “Motion” is discussed. What is not definition?

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Reason

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According to Aristotle’s Categories what is not listed as an Aristotelian Category?

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Of color

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According to Aristotle what is the “potential” for existence of “finite things?

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The material substratum

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According to Aristotle’s On the Soul “that in the soul which is called thought is - before it thinks” what?

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Not actually any real thing

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According to Aristotle what is the “actuality” at which all individuals (i.e. humans) orient themselves?

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The unmoved mover

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According to Aristotle’s On the Soul what happens to “thought” after it attains “knowledge?”

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It can think of itself

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According to Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics the “Syllogism” is the basis of all scientific knowledge. What is not true?

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It is composed of Premises and Conclusion based on Opinion

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According to Aristotle what term means to “quest for the next higher or ultimate existence?”

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Epistrophe

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According to Aristotle what is not a “terrestrial element?”

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Aether

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According to Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics how do we attain “moral virtue?”

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Aim at the median in the emotions and in actions

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In Epictetus’ Encheiridion we see arguments on how men should comport themselves. What would be a statement made by a “True Stoic?”

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“I am richer than you are; therefore my possessions are better than yours.”

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According to Epictetus’ Encheiridion “Illness is an impediment to the body, but not to [what]?”

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The Will

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Epictetus states bodies are a combination of what two “fundamental principles?”

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Logos and Physis

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According to Marcus Aurelius the universe is not governed by what?

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Illogic

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What things have “Logos” as their “governing principle” according to Epictetus?

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Humans

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For Epictetus what is the “creative principle?”

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Physis

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For both Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius what is not the “goal of life?”

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Monetary Wealth

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Although man’s acts are necessitated how does Marcus Aurelius state individuals become “free?”

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Acting Rationally

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According to Epictetus’ Encheiridion “what is proper for us to do is for the most part defined by… [what]?”

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Social relationships

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According to Marcus Aurelius what should the “rational individual” not fear?

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Death

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In Epictetus’ Encheiridion what within the world is “intrinsically evil?”

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Nothing

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What does Plotinus state is not “left behind” at salvation?

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The One/Divine

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According to Saint Augustine’s “What We Are To Believe” what group in specific does he speak against?

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Philosophers

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According to Aquinas God is not only the “first cause” of all motion He is also the “concurrent cause.” What does this mean?

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God is Omniscient, Omnipotent & Omnipresent

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According to Augustine what is the main way acceptable toward “salvation?”

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The church

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According to Plotinus what is the “most important and real?”

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Soul

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Augustine in Confessions (Book XI) - Time and Eternity states “but how can a future which does not yet exist dwindle or be used up, and how can a past which no longer exists grow?”

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The mind expects, attends, and remembers

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According to Plotinus within his Enneads he speaks of the qualities of a “virtuous soul.” What is not a way in which one can “see and know its loveliness?”

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Cling to all that is worldly

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Augustine in The City of God (Book XII) states “what makes the ‘will’ evil?”

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A desertion from God

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According to Aquinas what is the “potential” for existence of “finite things?”

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The material substratum

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According to Plotinus’ The Enneads he speaks of “souls” and “The Beauty” what is most important?

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The Beauty

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In Summa Theologica Aquinas speaks of God and the “effects of laws.” How do “laws” work on the mind of men?

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Compels through fear of punishment

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According to Aquinas what is not representative of the existence of God?

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Self-evident to reason

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Within Saint Augustine’s “What We Are To Believe” what is the main thrust of the excerpt?

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Faith is of utmost importance

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According to Aquinas what comprises the “substance” of finite things?

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Form and Matter

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According to Augustine’s The City of God (Book XII) - Chapter II “since God is supreme being- that is - since He supremely is and therefore is immutable it follows that He gave ‘being’ to all that He created [how]; not however [what]?”

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From nothing; absolute being

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According to Aquinas where do “ideas” exist?

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In Things

38
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What is not a portion of the metaphysical “Augustinian schema?”

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Reason

39
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For Epicurus of what does the “good and virtuous life consist?

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Pursuit of Pleasure: Avoidance of Pain

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In Epicurus’ Principal Doctrines what is not stated about “pleasure?”

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The means which produce pleasures is never Bad

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In Mill’s Utilitarianism, he speaks of the “Greatest Happiness Principle.” What is not representative of this doctrine

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Unhappiness is sometimes equivalent the Pleasure

42
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In Epicurus’ Principal Doctrines, “[What]… [as it] arise[s] from nature is a pledge of mutual advantage to restrain men from harming one another and save them from being harmed?”

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Justice

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According to J.S. Mill’s Utilitarianism “The Creed [GHP] which accepts as the foundations of [what]… holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness?”

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Morals

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Epicurus states the universe is made of what?

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Matter and Void

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In Epicurus’ Letter to Menoeceus, which of the following is not a description of the “Principles of the Good Life?”

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The Gods contain the same Virtues as men

46
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Given the existence of “Evil,” Mill states God is what?

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Limited

47
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In Epicurus’ Letter to Menoeceus what is not a description of the “wise man?”

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Seeks to escape Life

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In Mill’s Utilitarianism what concept is most important?

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Wrongful interference of each other’s Freedom

49
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In Epicurus’ Principal Doctrines man could not attain “pleasures unalloyed (e.g. pure pleasures) without the knowledge of what?,

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Philosophy

50
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For Mill what is “intrinsically good?”

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Pleasure

51
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In Mill’s Utilitarianism what is not used to determine “the value of pleasures?”

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Faith

52
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What are Epicurus’ criteria for knowledge?

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Clear View and Non-Contradiction

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In Mill’s Utiliatrianism, what is not representative of the “end of human action?”

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Self-Sacrifice

54
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For Epicurus where is “true pleasure” to be found?

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Imperturbability

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