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Post Aristotelian Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, and Modern Philosophy
Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Kant Descartes, John Locke
The two topical sections - Logic and Possible worlds
History Section (~75% of the Test)
Matching - Associate the Person with the appropriate Topic, Theory, or Proposition
He gives the categories/words and we find who it goes with
Categorical imperative - Immanuel Kant
Epistemic doubt - Rene Descartes
Epistemic Certainty - Rene Descartes
Father of Empiricism - Francis Bacon
Numeral vs Phenomenal - Immanuel Kant
Quinque Viae (The Five ways) - Aquinas
Ways of negation vs reality - Baruch Spinoza
We use three types of language to describe God, allegorical, equivocal, and univocal - Thomas Aquinas
The theory of divine illumination - Augustine
Theory of Emanation - Plotinus
Wager for God’s existence - Pascal
Originator of Ideal Forms - Plato
Originator of the Theory of Abstraction - Aristotle
Matching - Match the author to the book
City of God - Augustine
Prosolgian - Anselm of Canterbury
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbs
Pensées- Pascal
The Aeneans - Plotinus
Critique of Pure Reason - Kant
True False Questions (around 20)
Plotinus believed in the eternality of the world, but not the necessity of the world. - False
Plotinus’ philosophy was explicitly religious. - True
Although not a Christian Plotinus was sympathetic toward Christianity. - False
Scholars hold that Thomas Aquinas denied the existence of innate knowledge and even affirmed belief in tabula rasa - True
Concerning modern philosophy, empiricism describes the English posture, whereas rationalism describes the continental posture - True
The Medieval Period was truly a period of dark ages - False
John Locke closely followed the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. - False
Whereas we usually associate induction with empiricism, we usually associate deduction with rationalism - True
Multiple Choice Questions (Around 15)
Which figure articulated man’s inability or ability to commit sins with the phrases posse peccare et posse non peccare, non posse non peccare, and non posse peccare? - Augustine
Who ridiculed Anselm's argument for God's existence by saying he conceived the greatest possible Island? - Gaunilo
Which figure followed the religion of Manichaeism for a time? - Augustine
Albetro Magnus said we call him the dumb ox, but the bellows of that ox will resound throughout the whole world. Of who was he speaking? - Aquinas
Which figure boiled anthropology down to emotion? - Hume
That than which nothing or none greater can be thought. Is that cosmological, teleological, ontological, anthropological or moral argument? - Ontological
Be able to rank Plotinus’ levels of the world
The One (or The Good)
The Mind
The Soul
The Body/the Physical
Fill in the blank questions
What phrase did Augustine use to describe Plato’s ideal forms?
They are “divine ideas”?
The four cardinal virtues and the three theological virtues -
3 theological virtues: faith, hope, and love
4 cardinal virtues: courage, justice, temperance, prudence
Have a good working knowledge of the double theory of truth and whether it's a good or bad thing.
This is a Bad thing
Averröes proposed that the truth relating to philosophy can be different than in religion. For example, much of Aristotelian philosophy contradicts Muslim/Christian theocracy. Averröes proposes that this doesn’t matter.
Short Answer (Four of Six Questions)
The respective relationships of faith and reason and how they engage those between Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
Augustine - I believe in order to understand (credo ut intelligam)
Basically, faith has priority over reason.
We only learn because God reveals it to us through Divine Illumination
Faith is the foundation; reason is its servant and helper.
Aquinas -
Natural truths - known by reason
Revealed truths - known only by faith
Preliminary truths - reason can demonstrate them, but revelation also teaches them.
Augustine and Thomas Aquinas and Abraham Piper believed certain things regarding the church state relationship.
Augustine: Two cities; separate but related. Restrain sin, maintain order.
Aquinas: Distinct but complementary; harmony. Promote common good, natural law. The state should be subject to moral law and that the Church should be free from political interference.
Piper: Rejection of religious influence in politics. Secular, non-religious governance.
The question about the City of God and The City of Man
City of God: is formed by the love of God even to the contempt of self.
Spiritual and eternal.
The people in this city love God, and put him over every aspect of their life
Seeks humility and obedience to God
City of Man: Is formed by the love of self even to the contempt of God.
They love themselves more than anything else, including God
Defined by selfish and worldly desires.
Temporary and fleshly
They will be united in the judgment
Where does evil come from? Why does it exist?
Augstine says evil is just a lesser good. For example, choosing something that does less harm is less evil than choosing something worse. Likewise, Aquinas offers his view saying that evil is the perversion of good. Both say it’s the privation of good.
Logic and Possible Worlds (~25%)
True False Questions (around 10)
All descriptions of God are essential properties. - False (He might reword this question)
The laws of Logic, which are laws of truth, are a reflection of the Character of the being that is God - True
A proposition may be false - True
Know the three Laws of Logic
Law of Identity - Each thing is identical with itself
Law of noncontradictions - The same attribute cannot at the same time and in the same respect belong and not belong to the same subject. A cannot be both A and not-A at the same time
Law of the excluded middle - For any proposition P, either P is true or not-P is true.
Multiple Choice Questions
Who defines Philosophy as thinking really hard about something? - Alvin Plantinga
Four Questions: Identify whether it's formally valid or not formally valid according to Sentential logic?
Note that an argument may follow the rules of sentential logic but fail as a good deductive argument. Or it may make a true statement that fails to follow the rules of sentential logic.
Ex 1.
Premise 1: All people like to read and run
Premise 2: You are a person
Conclusion: You like to read and run.
Ex 2 (This is an example he gave of something that doesn’t follow logic).
Premise 1: If you listen to the soundtrack of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film of The Lord of the Rings series, then you are listening to Howard Shore.
Premise 2: You listen to the soundtrack of The Return of the King, the third film of The Lord of the Rings series.
Conclusion: You are listening to Howard Shore
Sometimes a thing can be true but not follow sentential logic.
Post Aristotelian Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, and Modern Philosophy
Plotinus, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Kant Descartes, John Locke
The two topical sections - Logic and Possible worlds
History Section (~75% of the Test)
Matching - Associate the Person with the appropriate Topic, Theory, or Proposition
He gives the categories/words and we find who it goes with
Categorical imperative - Immanuel Kant
Epistemic doubt - Rene Descartes
Epistemic Certainty - Rene Descartes
Father of Empiricism - Francis Bacon
Numeral vs Phenomenal - Immanuel Kant
Quinque Viae (The Five ways) - Aquinas
Ways of negation vs reality - Baruch Spinoza
We use three types of language to describe God, allegorical, equivocal, and univocal - Thomas Aquinas
The theory of divine illumination - Augustine
Theory of Emanation - Plotinus
Wager for God’s existence - Pascal
Originator of Ideal Forms - Plato
Originator of the Theory of Abstraction - Aristotle
Matching - Match the author to the book
City of God - Augustine
Prosolgian - Anselm of Canterbury
Leviathan - Thomas Hobbs
Pensées- Pascal
The Aeneans - Plotinus
Critique of Pure Reason - Kant
True False Questions (around 20)
Plotinus believed in the eternality of the world, but not the necessity of the world. - False
Plotinus’ philosophy was explicitly religious. - True
Although not a Christian Plotinus was sympathetic toward Christianity. - False
Scholars hold that Thomas Aquinas denied the existence of innate knowledge and even affirmed belief in tabula rasa - True
Concerning modern philosophy, empiricism describes the English posture, whereas rationalism describes the continental posture - True
The Medieval Period was truly a period of dark ages - False
John Locke closely followed the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes. - False
Whereas we usually associate induction with empiricism, we usually associate deduction with rationalism - True
Multiple Choice Questions (Around 15)
Which figure articulated man’s inability or ability to commit sins with the phrases posse peccare et posse non peccare, non posse non peccare, and non posse peccare? - Augustine
Who ridiculed Anselm's argument for God's existence by saying he conceived the greatest possible Island? - Gaunilo
Which figure followed the religion of Manichaeism for a time? - Augustine
Albetro Magnus said we call him the dumb ox, but the bellows of that ox will resound throughout the whole world. Of who was he speaking? - Aquinas
Which figure boiled anthropology down to emotion? - Hume
That than which nothing or none greater can be thought. Is that cosmological, teleological, ontological, anthropological or moral argument? - Ontological
Be able to rank Plotinus’ levels of the world
The One (or The Good)
The Mind
The Soul
The Body/the Physical
Fill in the blank questions
What phrase did Augustine use to describe Plato’s ideal forms?
They are “divine ideas”?
The four cardinal virtues and the three theological virtues -
3 theological virtues: faith, hope, and love
4 cardinal virtues: courage, justice, temperance, prudence
Have a good working knowledge of the double theory of truth and whether it's a good or bad thing.
This is a Bad thing
Averröes proposed that the truth relating to philosophy can be different than in religion. For example, much of Aristotelian philosophy contradicts Muslim/Christian theocracy. Averröes proposes that this doesn’t matter.
Short Answer (Four of Six Questions)
The respective relationships of faith and reason and how they engage those between Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.
Augustine - I believe in order to understand (credo ut intelligam)
Basically, faith has priority over reason.
We only learn because God reveals it to us through Divine Illumination
Faith is the foundation; reason is its servant and helper.
Aquinas -
Natural truths - known by reason
Revealed truths - known only by faith
Preliminary truths - reason can demonstrate them, but revelation also teaches them.
Augustine and Thomas Aquinas and Abraham Piper believed certain things regarding the church state relationship.
Augustine: Two cities; separate but related. Restrain sin, maintain order.
Aquinas: Distinct but complementary; harmony. Promote common good, natural law. The state should be subject to moral law and that the Church should be free from political interference.
Piper: Rejection of religious influence in politics. Secular, non-religious governance.
The question about the City of God and The City of Man
City of God: is formed by the love of God even to the contempt of self.
Spiritual and eternal.
The people in this city love God, and put him over every aspect of their life
Seeks humility and obedience to God
City of Man: Is formed by the love of self even to the contempt of God.
They love themselves more than anything else, including God
Defined by selfish and worldly desires.
Temporary and fleshly
They will be united in the judgment
Where does evil come from? Why does it exist?
Augstine says evil is just a lesser good. For example, choosing something that does less harm is less evil than choosing something worse. Likewise, Aquinas offers his view saying that evil is the perversion of good. Both say it’s the privation of good.
Logic and Possible Worlds (~25%)
True False Questions (around 10)
All descriptions of God are essential properties. - False (He might reword this question)
The laws of Logic, which are laws of truth, are a reflection of the Character of the being that is God - True
A proposition may be false - True
Know the three Laws of Logic
Law of Identity - Each thing is identical with itself
Law of noncontradictions - The same attribute cannot at the same time and in the same respect belong and not belong to the same subject. A cannot be both A and not-A at the same time
Law of the excluded middle - For any proposition P, either P is true or not-P is true.
Multiple Choice Questions
Who defines Philosophy as thinking really hard about something? - Alvin Plantinga
Four Questions: Identify whether it's formally valid or not formally valid according to Sentential logic?
Note that an argument may follow the rules of sentential logic but fail as a good deductive argument. Or it may make a true statement that fails to follow the rules of sentential logic.
Ex 1.
Premise 1: All people like to read and run
Premise 2: You are a person
Conclusion: You like to read and run.
Ex 2 (This is an example he gave of something that doesn’t follow logic).
Premise 1: If you listen to the soundtrack of The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film of The Lord of the Rings series, then you are listening to Howard Shore.
Premise 2: You listen to the soundtrack of The Return of the King, the third film of The Lord of the Rings series.
Conclusion: You are listening to Howard Shore
Sometimes a thing can be true but not follow sentential logic
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