Study Guide-Exam 3
I. You should be able to identify and provide brief answers about the following.
John Scotus Eriugena on Being
Anselm's first argument
Anselm's second argument
Abelard on agreement among things
Avicenna on the potential, actual, and agent intellects
Avicenna on the temporal origin of the soul
Averroes on Islamic consensus
Averroes on the three classes of being
Maimonides on affirmative attribution
Maimonides on divine attributes
Maimonides on negative attribution
Bonaventure on light of mechanical arts
Bonaventure on light of sense perception
Bonaventure on light of philosophical perception
Bonaventure on light of Sacred Scripture
Bonaventure on the pattern of human life
Aquinas on self-evidence of God's existence
Aquinas on two types of demonstration
Argument from motion
Argument from efficient causality
Argument from possibility and necessity
Argument from gradations
Argument from governance
II. You will be asked to write an essay of 300-400 words on one of the following.
How does Thomas make use of Aristotle's arguments regarding the unmoved mover?
What are the relative merits of Anselm's ontological arguments and Thomas' five ways?
What are the strengths and weaknesses of Avicenna's doctrine of the soul?
How does neo-platonism continue to influence philosophy in the middle ages?
How does Aristotelianism continue to influence philosophy in the middle ages?