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

The fact that St.Paul ____ would have been abhorrent to most Greek philosophers.

Turning away from the empirical world and entering a union with the eternal things that dwell beyond the world of the flesh was characteristic of the good life for:

Once Aristotle's ideas were assimilated into church dogma,they were:

Aristotle's philosophy was highly influential in ____ during the so-called Dark Ages.

Discuss the Christian philosophy of St.Augustine and its influence.

The person who discovered that the retina,not the lens,is the light sensitive part of the eye and that inoculation might prevent disease was:

The Scholastics made ____ contributions to philosophy and psychology.

Aristotle's emphasis on ____ placed the church in a difficult position.

St.Augustine did not agree with the doctrine of predestination.

According to St.Augustine,evil exists because:

Describe St.Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God.

The main target of the skeptics was dogmatism.A dogmatist is anyone who:

The major assumption made in the ontological argument for the existence of God is:

Thomas Aquinas attempted to reconcile faith and reason.

Epicurus believed all of the following except:

Discuss Thomas Aquinas' contribution and influence.

Which of the following did occur during the Dark Ages ?

The synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotle's philosophy was called scholasticism.

All of the following agreed that there was a higher truth beyond any that could be experienced through the senses (though they disagreed as to what that higher truth was)except:

This person preferred naturalistic explanations to supernatural ones and earned the title,"Destroyer of Religion".