Answers to Practice Exam
Christianity Section
Are these things that Plato or Christianity or Both would say about God or the Form of the
Good?
abstract or general P
pure form P
a person C
cares about individual humans. C
transcendent B
Are these things that Plato, or Christianity, or both would believe?
believes complete happiness is possible. B
believes that subjective attachments are important. C
Transcendent realm involves the subjective or internal. C
believes you should detach yourself from all subjective attachments. P
believes transcendent realm is objective and cannot be subjective. P
believes that human beings cannot escape pain and be completely happy. Neither
believes in a transcendent realm. B
True or false:
A sin is an act that offends God F
A virtue is an act that pleases God. F
A sin an unhealthy state of the will or character T
A virtue is a Healthy state of the will or character. T
match
Cardinal Virtues
Plato
Involves only Reason
Only Objective.
Christian Virtues
Involves the Will
Are both objective and subjective
Christianity
True of Thomas or Anselm or neither.
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God is proven to exist by trying to explain the existence of the universe, which we
know from experience. T
God is proven to exist by seeing that God thinks, therefore He must exist. N
God is proven to exist by seeing that his idea of God included necessary existence. A
God is proven to exist by seeing that his idea of God had a formal reality which was
greater than the cause of its objective reality. N
We cannot prove God's existence; it could only be known by faith. N
Reason was a substitute for faith. N