Due @ 2:20 - 3/17/2011
St. Augustine:
1. What is Christian – Platonism?
2. What subject did Augustine devote most of his time to considering?
3. According to Augustine, what is “evil?”
• Do you agree?
4. What is his central philosophical thesis?
5. Why is “evil” necessary?
6. Summarize the point made in the last paragraph.
Thomas Aquinas
1. Do you agree with the first line of the selection?
2. Who was the central influence in Aquinas’s thinking?
3. What conflicting ideas did Aquinas attempt to rectify?
4. How did early Christian theologians (like Philoponus) attempt to prove Aristotle wrong?
5. How does Aquinas respond to Aristotle’s assertion that the universe has always existed?
6. Paraphrase the “footprint” analogy and rephrase it in simple English.
7. How did Aristotle “synthesize” the Bible and the works of Aristotle?
8. How does Aquinas define human knowledge as opposed to that possessed by animals?
9. In terms of the inherent tension between religion, philosophy, and physics – what is Aquinas most
significant legacy?
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