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• Consider the following statements in the light of philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas<br>1. Philosophy passes from facts to God and theology from God to facts.<br>2. He made a distinction between reason and faith and argued that matters of faith such as revealed truths are beyond reason, but not contrary to reason.<br>3. Faith is a matter of will and the will commands acceptance.<br>Which of the statement(s) given above is/are correct?
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  Only 1

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  Only 2

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  1 and 3

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  All of the above
• What are the two opposite principles that grants the existence of soul?
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  Life and love

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  Love and hate

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  Faith and reason

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  Life and death
• According to St. Augustine, human soul is
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  An eternal substance identical with the cosmos

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  A material substance characterised by consciousness

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  An individual substance

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  A rational substance suited for ruling the body
• St. Anselm believes in<br>1. Ontological argument<br>2. Idea of perfect being<br>3. Idea of non-perfect<br>4. Non-ontological argument
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  1 and 2

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  2 and 3

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  1 and 3

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  2 and 4
• What are the attributes given to God by St. Augustine?
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  Eternal

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  Transcendent

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  Absolute

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  All of these
• Whose motto is this 'Faith seeking understanding'?
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  St. Augustine

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  St. Anselm

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  St. Aquinas

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  Plato
• What is the stand of St. Anselm on the concept of God?
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  Existence is not essence

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  Existence is contingent

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  Existence is contradictory

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  Existence is necessary quality
• Ontological argument' of St. Anselm was adopted by
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  Descartes

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  Spinoza

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  Leibniz

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  Locke
• Thomas Aquinas accepted the doctrine of creation of the world out of nothing, according to
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  Descartes' view

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  Aristotelian view

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  Christian revelation

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  None of these
• Evil is regarded as
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  Fact of life and physical

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  Physical and moral

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  Fact of life, physical and moral

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  Nature of God
• Given below are Assertion (A) and Reason (R). Consider them in the light of Thomas Aquinas and mark the correct answer.<br>Assertion (A) God is the uncaused cause of the world.<br>Reason (R) Anything that begins to exist has to be caused to exist by something that already exists.
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  Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A

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  Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A

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  A is true and R isfalse

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  A is false and R is true
• There is a being which keeps all contigent things in existence, and which by itself has its own ground of existence, for this reason one has to grant that there is
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  First mover which moves without being moved by anything else

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  Primary being which must exist

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  Necessary being which exists by its own necessity

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  None of the above
• Who gave the objection on the Ontological argument of Anselm?
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  St. Aquinas

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  Gaunilo

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  Plato

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  Augustine
• Why St. Augustine think that evil is good? What happens with the enhancement of evil?
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  Inner good

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  External good

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  Greater good

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  Greater God
• Who states that "Understand in order that you may believe, believe in order that you may understand, Somethings we don't believe unless we understand them; other we do not understand unless we believe."
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  St. Anselm

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  St. Aquinas

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  St. Augustine

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  William Occam
• Consider the following statements in the light of St. Augustine and mark the correct answer.<br>1. Mutability is a mark of every creature.<br>2. God is strictly immutable.<br>3. Changeable things are not fully but only 'partially' real.<br>4. All creatures are absolutely real.
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  Only 1 is true

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  1 and 2 are true

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  3 and 4 are true

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  1, 2 and 3 are true
• What is St. Augustine response on saying that "Soul is immortal"?
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  Correct

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  Incorrect
• St. Thomas Aquinas says that essences exist in the . . . . . . . . only.
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  Space

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  Time

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  Divine mind

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  God
• Adam uses what to missue free will?
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  Obedience

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  Dis-bedience

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  Omnipotence

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  Benevolence
• St. Augustine believes that 'The God we follow is full of incompetency'. Is the statement true?
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  Yes

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  No
• The world is said to be the product of two Gods, namely . . . . . . . .?
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  Eternal arid non-eternal

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  The good and the evil

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  Supreme Gad and God of all

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  None of the bove
• Saint Augustine's influential work, 'The City of God' was considered as the first book on
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  Comparative philosophy

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  Philosophy of religion

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  Philosophy of history

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  Philosophy of christianity
• One who followed Aristotle and disliked Plato was
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  St. Thomas Aquinas

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  Spinoza

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  Leibnitz

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  Berkeley
• Through the effect, one can understand about the existence of this world. What type of argument is this?
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  Cosmological argument

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  Theological argument

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  Hypothetical argument

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  Pantheistic argument
• Whatever God creates, he was guided by his own free will. Is the given statement true with respect to St. Augustine?
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  True

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  False
• 'Faith seeks, understanding finds' who said this?
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  St. Augustine

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  St. Anselm

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  St. Aquinas

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  None of the above
• The view that "All things were created good by God and evil is corruption of that Good" was held by
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  St. Augustine

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  St. Anselm

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  Thomas Aquinas

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  Plotinus
• What is the other name of Teleological argument?
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  Argument from Divine

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  Argument from Design

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  Argument from Being

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  Argument from Perfection
• Without active will on the part of man, he will not be able to sense, know and rise to the final vision of God. This theory is given by
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  Austin

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  Aristotle

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  Plato

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  Augustine
• The first three arguments for the existence existence of God, given by St. Thomas Aquinas are called
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  Teleological

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  Cosmological

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  Ontological

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  Epistemological