Midterms

Question 1

What is St. Augustine known for?

Answer 1

St. Augustine of Hippo. One of the Latin Fathers of the Church, one of the Doctors of the Church, and one of the most significant Christian thinkers

Question 2

What influenced St. Augustine in his belief ?

Answer 2

Plato’s Theory of Forms

Question 3

What is St. Augustine’s belief?

Answer 3

He asserted that they were concepts existing within the perfect and eternal God where the soul belonged. The soul held the truth and was acceptable of scientific thinking.

Question 4

What is st. Augustine’s concept of the self?

Answer 4

His concept of the “self” was an inner, immaterial “I” that had self-knowledge and self-awareness. The human being is both a soul and body, and the body possessed senses, such as imagination, memory, reason, and mind through which the soul experienced the world.

Question 5

What are the three concept of the soul according to St. Augustine?

Answer 5

i. It is able to be aware of itself
ii. It recognizes itself as a holistic one
iii. It is aware of its unity

Question 6

What did St Augustine expoused?

Answer 6

i. Human beings through the senses could sense the material, temporal objects as we interacted with the material world;
ii. The immaterial but intelligible God would only be clear or obvious to the mind if one tune into his/her immaterial self/soul;
iii. Human beings who is both soul and body is meant to tend to higher, divine and heavenly matters;
iv. A person is similar to God as regards to the mind and its ability