Unit 1: 10 Aquinas, Aristotle, and Engels

Question 1

Aristotle

Answer 1

Considered to have been one of greatest and most influential thinkers of all Greek philosophers

Question 2

Teachings had powerful effect on western culture?

Answer 2

Aristotle

Question 3

Born in Greece in 384 b.c.

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 4

Brilliant from childhood, attended philosophical school of Plato?

Answer 4

Aristotle

Question 5

Supervised early education of Alexander the Great at one point in life?

Answer 5

Aristotle

Question 6

Aristotle’s political works?

Answer 6

Nichomachean Ethics and Politics

Question 7

Nichomachean Ethics and politics proposed?

Answer 7

Citizens should be given the right to happiness and to pursue his dreams and goals

Question 8

Aristotle’s theory of “function” said that?

Answer 8

Great personal fulfillment is achieved when a person is given the freedom to pursue his dreams

Question 9

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Answer 9

Born in Italy around A.D. 1225

Considered one of greatest medieval philosophers

Question 10

After attending University of Naples and entering priesthood, he studied philosophy and theology and began writing?

Answer 10

Aquinas

Question 11

Professor of theology at University of Paris at one point?

Answer 11

Aquinas

Question 12

St. Thomas Aquinas’ works?

Answer 12

Summa Contra Gentiles, he wrote a message to Gentiles about accepting the doctrines of Christianity

Question 13

Summa Theological?

Answer 13

1265, Aquinas, one of best medieval treatises explaining Christian theology, 8 years later halted work and never finished

Question 14

Writings on government bodily stated the government’s responsibility to citizens?

Answer 14

Aquinas

Question 15

Wrote it was a requirement of government to serve people and help them live rightly?

Answer 15

Aquinas

Question 16

Government had a ____ responsibility to be obedient to ______ from God

Answer 16

Moral, divine laws

Question 17

Aquinas felt strongly about human rights such as ____, _____, and _____

Answer 17

Life, education, freedom of religion

Question 18

Friedrich Engels, though from a well-to-do family, established himself as a?

Answer 18

Revolutionary

Question 19

Strange thing about Engels’ writings is that although they spoke of uprising of the common worker, they were used by some of the most _____ governments in this century

Answer 19

Oppressive