According to St. Thomas, faith
1. Overcomes doubt in metaphysics
2. Enables
3. Adds
moral choice
to what is naturally available to reason
4. Requires
an irrational commitment of the will
St. Paul explains that men have degraded the sublime nature of God in their
imagination to that of animals because
1. They cannot bear the thought that, like animals, their souls end at death
2. They
wish to destroy the animal kingdom and all religious activity with it
3. They
wish to lower the divine standard to the animal level in order to justify
their own misconduct
4. They wish to craft idols to worship, and animal forms are appealing to the
human imagination
St. Paul explains that what trait occurs in human beings prior to their evil choices?
1. Mental illness
2. Truth-suppression
3. Criminology
4. Lawlessness
in isolation
St. Augustine argues that the pagan philosophers failed to acknowledge the full
conditions on human happiness because
1. They could not identify a means for the cosmic re-ordering necessary for
human happiness
2. They rejected the theism at the core of Pauline metaphysical theology
3. They
were dishonest to the core, though some of their students did achieve
enlightenment
4. They followed Socrates
To help educate the Guardians in public-mindedness, Socrates suggests what
principle?
1. That women remain subservient to military men
2. That
everyone in the city study philosophy
3. That
rulers be compelled to serve
4. That
all things be held in common
According to St. Thomas, grace does what?
1. Controls all things, because God is omnipotent
2. Completes
3. Replaces
human nature in the love of God
human nature by removing the body and taking us to heaven
4. Overcomes
all the ills of this world
Aristotle says that human loves come in what three possible forms?
1. Pleasure, Utility, Completeness
2. Truth,
Justice, Happiness
3. Strong,
Moderate, Weak
4. Incontinence,
Continence, Virtue
According to St. Thomas, what three supernatural virtues must be added to the
cardinal virtues of Plato to complete human happiness?
1. Happiness, Power, Law
2. Faith,
3. God
Hope, Love
the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit
4. Justice,
Moderation, Theism
Socrates maintains that what two disciplines are necessary for the guardian auxiliaries
to study?
1. Leadership and War
2. Chess
and Mathematic
3. Music
and Gymnastic
4. Horsemanship
and Archery
St. Augustine argues that the Stoic position is incoherent because
1. The Stoic demands submission of the totality of a person to the sage
2. The
Stoic refuses to take on public office for the state
3. The
Stoic advocates suicide to abandon a world he alleges is good
4. The
Stoic rejects Christianity
St. Paul explains that what follows the intellectual vices associated with denying
God’s moral goodness?
1. Moral Vices
2. Happiness
3. Hell
and Purgatory
4. Incongruity
The point of the Republic is to prove what?
1. That justice should always be chosen, even when no one is looking.
2. That
the proper form of government is a republic
3. That
one should take care of oneself and one’s friends first
4. That
virtues are necessary in the people but not so much in their leaders
What benefit does St. Paul explain is offered through suffering?
1. Wealth
2. The
virtue of perseverance
3. Honor
4. The
virtue of prudence
Socrates likens human virtue to what in the end of book IV of the Republic?
1. Cows
2. Guardians
3. Wisdom
4. Health
The person “making progress” in the Stoic disciplines blames whom for his troubles?
1. Himself
2. No
one
3. His
enemies
4. Bad
luck
St. Paul argues that all men are responsible for acknowledging God’s rightful
judgment because
1. We must take all these things on faith
2. There
is sufficient natural evidence of his existence and goodness
3. Who
dares to challenge the Almighty?
4. God
knows everything that we have done but also what we have not done
Aristotle says that what group of people tend toward utility-based relationships?
1. The young
2. The
elderly
3. The
wise
4. The
foolish
St. Paul explains that what intellectual vice occurs when the supreme goodness of
God is denied?
1. Renunciation
2. Futility of
3. Total
mind
depravity
4. Heartbreak
According to Epictetus, all things in our lives are divided into what two possibilities?
1. What things that are up to us vs. those things that are not up to us
2. What
the gods love vs. what they hate
3. What
makes us feel good vs. what makes us unhappy
4. What
things are reasonably achievable vs. those things that aren’t
Aristotle argues that there must be a supreme human good because
1. Goodness is necessary for political success
2. All
human choice would be meaningless otherwise
3. Virtue
is self-sufficient in itself
4. Humans
are supreme over the animals
According to the Stoics, the real cause of difficulties is?
1. Irritating people
2. Natural
necessity in the physical laws governing the world
3. The
total depravity of man
4. The
falsity of our beliefs about the world
Aristotle argues that to discern what human goodness is, we must
1. Identify human evil in the political realm
2. Be
happy
3. Identify the
4. Practice
definition of human nature
archery in all of its three forms
What three sets of virtues does Aristotle maintain human beings must possess to be
happy?
1. Political, Technological, and Metaphysical
2. Poverty of
spirit, Meekness, and Peacemaking
3. Intellectual,
4. Industry,
Moral, and Healthy
Frugality, and Liberty
Plato divides the human soul into what three elements?
1. Faith, Hope, Love
2. Wisdom,
3. Reason,
4. Ego,
Intelligence, Craftiness
Spirit, Appetite
Superego, Id
St. Augustine says that all things are ultimately ordered toward what?
1. Peace
2. The
intangible
3. Death
4. The
obscene
Why does St. Paul believe that human suffering isn’t comparable to future glory?
1. Because future suffering is proportionate to current suffering
2. Because
future glory is finitely ordered
3. Because
current suffering is finite and the future glory is infinite
4. Because
infinite current suffering cannot be outweighed by anything future
Aristotle says what are the three most favored lives?
1. Pleasure, Honor, Contemplation
2. Athletics,
Music, Astronomy
3. Courage,
Equality, Freedom
4. Justice,
Happiness, Virtue
What is the object of Stoic worship?
1. Love
2. Fate
3. Fame
4. Poseidon
St. Augustine surprisingly says that what figure has goodness within him?
1. Apophis
2. Hitler
3. Caesar
4. Satan
Aristotle identifies what as the solution to the problem of King Priam’s unhappiness?
1. King Priam was too wealthy compared to the people he ruled
2. King
Priam’s virtue was undermined by an assault on his rationality
3. King
Priam lost his son, Hector, to the Greek hero, Achilles
4. King
Priam was an evil king
What are the four key virtues in Plato’s city?
1. Power, Intelligence, Flexibility, Rhetoric
2. Happiness,
3. Humility,
4. Justice,
Grace, Faith, Hope
Humility, Humility, Humility
Wisdom, Moderation, Courage
Why does St. Thomas say that the love of God is the greatest commandment?
1. Because, since God just is, we just are too
2. Because
all ten of the original commandments needed to be replaced by this
Christian commandment
3. Because,
since God loves us, we ought to love him
4. Because,
since God is the supreme good, only in loving him can we be
supremely happy
St. Augustine argues that there is no nature without goodness within it because
1. A little bit of goodness goes a long way
2. Happiness
is virtue
3. God
created all natures
4. God
is good, while man is evil
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