Exam 3: After Aristotle: A Search for the Good Life

Largely due to this man's efforts,Christianity was defined by a single set of beliefs and documents.

Confessions,a volume about one man's sins,confessions,and forgiveness was written by:

Events following the death of Aristotle created a situation in which people sought:

During the Dark Ages,Islam was a powerful force in the world.

The Roman Empire's emphasis on law and order fit well with:

The religion in which individuals are caught in an eternal struggle between wisdom and correctness as well as ignorance and evil is called:

The belief that extraneous assumptions should be eliminated from explanations is called:

Using Kuhn's terminology to describe the conditions of the 14^th and 15^th centuries,all of the following were true except:

To remove inconsistencies in church dogma,Abelard used:

Neoplatonism stressed the rational aspects of Plato's philosophy.

All of the following were true of Aquinas' theology except:

The attempt to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy and Christian theology was referred to as:

Which of the following was not part of St.Augustine's Christian worldview,which dominated Western life and thought for centuries?

The Cynic's view would propose:

All of the following individuals searched for abstract truths that existed beyond the world of appearance except:

During the period before the Renaissance,which of the following was not true?

During the Dark Ages,church dogma was vigorously challenged.

For St.Augustine,the primary goal of human existence was to:

In addition to making a comprehensive review of Aristotle's works and the Islamic and Jewish scholar's interpretation of Aristotle's works,____ was the first since the Greeks to attempt to learn about nature by making careful empirical observations.

Which of the following did St.Paul add to the Judaic tradition?