Philosophy 31

Question 0

For Albertus and Aquinas. What was it a “short step to?”

Answer 0

Their conclusion that the more the world was explored and understood, the greater knowledge of and reverence for God would result

Question 1

What did Albertus and Aquinas hold in common?

Answer 1

Members of the Dominican order and participants in a sustained and widespread influx of evangelical fervor which began with Dominic and Francis of Assisi

Question 2

What was “at the heart of” Aquinas’s vision?

Answer 2

His belief that to subtract man’s extraordinary capacities would to lease the infinite capacity of God himself and his creative omnipotence

Question 3

What could not be “foreign” to God’s revelation?

Answer 3

Nothing that was true and valuable, even if achieved by man’s natural intellect

Question 4

How is the “particularity” made intelligible?

Answer 4

By experiencing the particular through the senses, the human mind could move toward the universal, which made intelligible the particular

Question 5

What is “every creature” that God is not?

Answer 5

A compound of essence and existence

Question 6

What did Aquinas synthesize?

Answer 6

Plato’s transcendent reality with Aristotle’s concrete reality