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

Which of the following was not occurring as the situation was being set for the advent of the Renaissance?

St.Augustine combined stoicism,neoplatonism,and Judaism into a powerful Christian worldview.

According to Lombard,all of the following was a way of knowing God except:

Abelard taught that:

The man who was given the nickname,"Cynic," and who also lived a self-sufficient,publicly outrageous life was:

All of the following were true of Averroës' philosophy except:

Aquinas' great achievement was the:

Maimonides sought to reconcile Judaism and Aristotelian philosophy.

According to St.Augustine,not acting in accordance with the internal sense caused:

The mystery religions that were influential in the early Roman Empire were characterized by all of the following except:

What did the Skeptics use as their guide(s)for living?

Philo believed all of the following except:

Those who said so-called universals were nothing more than convenient verbal labels were called:

Pyrrho suggested that by ____ one could avoid the frustration of being wrong.

According to Philo,the way to true knowledge is by:

Describe the "spirit of the times" prior to the Renaissance.

Abelard's proposed compromise between nominalism (concepts summarize individual experience)and realism (once concepts are formed,they exist apart from individual experience),is called:

Briefly compare and contrast the philosophies of Skepticism,Cynicism,Epicureanism,and Stoicism.

For the Stoics,the basic moral choice a person makes is:

The Skeptics' main target of attack was the dogmatists.