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Fully define Oxymoron:

Is a logical consideration in terms.

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Fully define Oxymoron:

Is a logical consideration in terms.

Fully define Empiricism

The view that all knowledge begins with sensation.

Fully define Hedonism

The view that the purpose of human life is pleasure and that pleasure and goodness are identical.

Fully define Synthesis

Aquinas method of seeking the truth in philosophy where you look at all sides of a question, take out the partial truth and combine them in a final solution.

Fully define Beatitude

Aquinas views that true happiness is found in knowing, loving, and serving god.

Fully define Theodicy

Is the area of philosophy that deals with the question of the existence of god and existence of evil, pain, and serving.

Explain what the problem of Faith and Reason involve.

Philosophy deals with the meaning of life, what is what or wrong , what is ultimate truth, what is the highest reality, which deals with the same question that philosophy has. So the question would be if you have faith in a religion, what supposed needs would you have for philosophy, they seem to both be delivering answers if you use one what would be the need for the other.

Thoroughly discuss the main parts of Aquinas’ style of writing in the Summa.

Whenever Aquinas is talking about any philosophical topic, he carefully arranges the fundamental questions and how they should be organized and what question should come first and that is how he gets his question. The objections are answers to the question that he thinks are wrong but are really important wrong answers, the goals for the objections are to represent the argument very clearly. The on the contracted is usually just a quote of a reference from someone who disagrees with the objections. The I answer that is where Aquinas gets his own views but not just his own view but the view that he thinks is true. The replies are numbers to the objection.

Fully Define Natural Theology

Philosophy of god what you can provide about god through the use of human reason alone.

Fully Define Sacred Theology.

Reasoning about the revealed truths of faith.

Fully define Fideism

Is the view that all of life's important questions should be answered by faith alone, and you should be a species of philosophy and of reason because philosophy or reason might lead you away from your faith.

Fully define Averroeism

A position of faith and reason and reason should act as a corrective of faith.

Thoroughly describe Aquinas’ position on faith and reason. Illustrate how this works through his thoughts on the Creation of the World, the Trinity, and the Divinity of Christ.

Aquinas views as starting with the position that there is no real contradiction on faith and reason. If there appears to be a contradiction you either misunderstood what faith teaches or you have misunderstood the philosophical argument. So an apparent contradiction can be satisfying by looking at it carefully, that there is no real contradiction. Philosophy is different from faith, philosophy relies upon what we can naturally know and that is all through sensation, and so we can only provide a contenting amount of things about God and whatever we provide, we provide simply in an analogical way.

Explain why Aquinas thinks all philosophical knowledge of God is analogical. Relate this to his empiricism.

Aquinas thinks that Aristotle is right that all knowledge starts with sensation, and that whatever we know best is something that we can sense.

Explain what is meant by a cosmological proof for the existence of God.

An argument to provide the existence of god which starts with the word as an effect and argues back to the god as the cause of the effects.

Explain what is meant by an ontological proof for the existence of God

Is an argument that claims that you can provide the existence of God from the definition of God.

Explain what is meant by a teleological proof for the existence of God.

an argument that tries to provide the existence of god by starting with evidence of intelligence, purpose design in nature and moving back to god as the unlimited intelligence or designer behind that.

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