Phil101 UD Rogers Test 2 2025/2026
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Is Augustine more Platonic or Aristotelian? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔__philosopher__ is more Platonic
Is Aquinas more Platonic or Aristotelian? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔__philosopher__
is more Aristotelian
Medieval philosophy is a synthesis of - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Greek Philosophy
and Biblical Revelation
Isn't there something intellectually suspicious about accepting some things
on faith? Our medieval guys respond... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔• Many truths "of
faith" can be proved by reason for those who have the time and the talent.
E.g. There is a God.
• Many of your most important and practical beliefs are held on faith. (The
testimony of others.) It would be irrational to abandon them.
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,St. Augustine's Example of something you believe on faith. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Knowing your parents are your parents
Most of what you believe, you believe based on - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the
testimony of others
Accepting things on "faith" means you - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔run an epistemic
risk of being mistaken
St. Augustine argues that, while it's bad to hold a belief that's false, it's also
bad - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔to fail to hold a belief that's true
"What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?" Better to just have faith
and not philosophize about it? Our medieval guys respond.... - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Religion needs philosophy
Religion needs philosophy detials - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔• You are commanded
to love God and you cannot love what you do not know.
• Faith without philosophy can be weakened God and you cannot love what
you do not know.
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,• St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas both hold that the tenets of the
Christian faith and what reason can prove must ultimately be - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔in harmony
Why say god is perfect and unlimited (philosophical reasons) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔1. This is what (some of) the proofs prove.
2. If god is the source of all, then He must transcend the limitations of what
He has made.
Why say god is perfect and unlimited (religious reasons) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔suppose we say that God is imperfect and limited? Then we can think
of a better being - one that is perfect and unlimited - in which case the less
than perfect "god" is not worthy of worship.
How many gods can there be at the most? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Only one- if
there were two they'd limit each other:
o 1. If there were two, either they'd have power over each other or they
wouldn't.
o 2. If they have power over each other they're limited.
o 3. If they don't have power over each other they're limited.
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, o Therefore, there can be only one.
Two characteristics of God - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔immutable (unchanging) &
omnipotent
"Omnipotence" definition according to our medical guys - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔"The ability to do anything logically possible for a perfect and unlimited
being to do."
Law of Non-contradiction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔~(A&~A)
It is not the case that A and not-A in the same way at the same time.
(God can't do the logically impossible)
What is the relationship between God and the laws of logic? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔• Logic is the rules for how to think properly about how reality is.
• Reality is made by God and is a reflection of the nature of God.
• So the laws of logic are grounded in the nature of God
Why can't God conform to laws of logic? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔He would be
limited to them.
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Is Augustine more Platonic or Aristotelian? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔__philosopher__ is more Platonic
Is Aquinas more Platonic or Aristotelian? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔__philosopher__
is more Aristotelian
Medieval philosophy is a synthesis of - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Greek Philosophy
and Biblical Revelation
Isn't there something intellectually suspicious about accepting some things
on faith? Our medieval guys respond... - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔• Many truths "of
faith" can be proved by reason for those who have the time and the talent.
E.g. There is a God.
• Many of your most important and practical beliefs are held on faith. (The
testimony of others.) It would be irrational to abandon them.
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,St. Augustine's Example of something you believe on faith. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Knowing your parents are your parents
Most of what you believe, you believe based on - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the
testimony of others
Accepting things on "faith" means you - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔run an epistemic
risk of being mistaken
St. Augustine argues that, while it's bad to hold a belief that's false, it's also
bad - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔to fail to hold a belief that's true
"What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?" Better to just have faith
and not philosophize about it? Our medieval guys respond.... - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Religion needs philosophy
Religion needs philosophy detials - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔• You are commanded
to love God and you cannot love what you do not know.
• Faith without philosophy can be weakened God and you cannot love what
you do not know.
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,• St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas both hold that the tenets of the
Christian faith and what reason can prove must ultimately be - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔in harmony
Why say god is perfect and unlimited (philosophical reasons) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔1. This is what (some of) the proofs prove.
2. If god is the source of all, then He must transcend the limitations of what
He has made.
Why say god is perfect and unlimited (religious reasons) - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔suppose we say that God is imperfect and limited? Then we can think
of a better being - one that is perfect and unlimited - in which case the less
than perfect "god" is not worthy of worship.
How many gods can there be at the most? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Only one- if
there were two they'd limit each other:
o 1. If there were two, either they'd have power over each other or they
wouldn't.
o 2. If they have power over each other they're limited.
o 3. If they don't have power over each other they're limited.
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, o Therefore, there can be only one.
Two characteristics of God - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔immutable (unchanging) &
omnipotent
"Omnipotence" definition according to our medical guys - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔"The ability to do anything logically possible for a perfect and unlimited
being to do."
Law of Non-contradiction - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔~(A&~A)
It is not the case that A and not-A in the same way at the same time.
(God can't do the logically impossible)
What is the relationship between God and the laws of logic? - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔• Logic is the rules for how to think properly about how reality is.
• Reality is made by God and is a reflection of the nature of God.
• So the laws of logic are grounded in the nature of God
Why can't God conform to laws of logic? - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔He would be
limited to them.
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