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in what years did Socrates live? - ANSWER470 BCE - 399 BCE
400s BCE
5th century BCE
what are Socrates' major works? - ANSWERhe wrote nothing
who is known as "The Father of Western Philosophy" - ANSWERSocrates
who was Plato's teacher? - ANSWERSocrates
in what years did Plato live? - ANSWER427 BCE - 348 BCE
400s - 300s BCE
4th and 5th century BCE
what are Plato's major early works? - ANSWER-The Apology
-Plato's Crito
who wrote the Apology? - ANSWERPlato
who wrote Plato's Crito? - ANSWERPlato
what are Plato's early works based on? - ANSWERthey were faithful to Socrates
what are Plato's major middle works? - ANSWER-Symposium
-Republic
who wrote the Symposium? - ANSWERPlato
who wrote the Republic? - ANSWERPlato
what are Plato's middle works based on? - ANSWERmore of his own beliefs
what is Plato's major late work? - ANSWERTimaeus
who wrote Timaeus? - ANSWERPlato
,who was Aristotle's teacher? - ANSWERPlato
in what years did Aristotle live? - ANSWER384 BCE - 322 BCE
300s BCE
4th century BCE
what are Aristotle's major works? - ANSWERTreatises that focus on ethics, categories,
logic, politics, physics, and metaphysics
who wrote the Treatises? - ANSWERAristotle
who was Alexander the Great/Alexander of Macedon's teacher? - ANSWERAristotle
in what years did Alexander the Great/Alexander of Macedon live? - ANSWER356 BCE
- 323 BCE
300s BCE
4th century BCE
what did Alexander the Great/Alexander of Macedon spread? - ANSWERHellenistic
(Greek-like) culture and founded philosophy schools in Iberia to North Africa to
Northwest India
who wrote 1 John? - ANSWERthe Apostle John or it was written in the tradition of him
what are the Apostle John's major works? - ANSWER-"The Johannine Corpus" of New
Testament literature which includes the Gospel of John and 1, 2, 3 John
-The Book of Revelation
who is known as "The One Whom Jesus Loved" - ANSWERthe Apostle John
who was the only apostle to not be martyred? - ANSWERJohn
what does the Apostle John teach? - ANSWERa deep connection between love,
obedience, and truth
in what years did Thomas Aquinas live? - ANSWER1225 - 1274
1220s
13 century
what are Aquinas's major works? - ANSWER-Commentaries on Aristotle
-Commentaries on The Bible
-Summa Contra Gentiles
-Summa Theologiae
-Aquinas on Truth
-Aquinas's Argument From Motion
, what is Thomas Aquinas's background? - ANSWER-born into a noble family
-expected to become an abbot
-wanted to become a Dominican Friar but his family opposed
who wrote Commentaries on Aristotle? - ANSWERAquinas
who wrote Commentaries on The Bible? - ANSWERAquinas
who wrote Summa Contra Gentiles? - ANSWERAquinas
who wrote Summa Theologiae? - ANSWERAquinas
Aquinas incorporated whose work into mainstream Christian theology? -
ANSWERAristotle
what two books did Aquinas often write of? - ANSWERthe book of nature and the book
of scripture
what does Aquinas believe is the relationship between faith and reason? - ANSWER-
they exist in harmony and support each other
-faith builds upon reason, but faith and reason are not the same thing
-faith requires "motives of credibility"
-book of nature and book of scripture
-legitimate distinction in the methods and types of truths available within the various
branches of knowledge
what are the main ideas in Aquinas on Truth? - ANSWER-truth in the order of knowing
consists in a correspondence between the mind and the thing (the thing is the measure
of mind)
-truth in the order of being (ontological truth) consists in a correspondence between the
divine mind and reality
what are the main ideas of Summa Contra Gentiles? - ANSWER-wisdom is concerned
with governing according to the highest end of things
-we have two sources of knowledge (faith and reason)
-some things can be known by reason alone (God exists, God is one, God is the author
of the moral order)
-why reveal knowable things?: few would know, truth mixed with falsehood
-faith and reason overlap but they are not coextensive
what is reason? - ANSWERthe faculty of producing knowledge from given grounds
what is Aquinas's definition of faith and what are its key components? - ANSWER-a
free, grace-assisted assent to God's word as divinely revealed
according to Aristotle and Aquinas, all knowledge is rooted in? - ANSWERsenses