Straighterline Philosophy exam 2 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What do Pyrrhonic skeptics maintain? correct answer: People should suspend judgment about all things. Which view did Aquinas accept? correct answer: A physical thing is matter plus form. Which ancient philosophical tradition did Plotinus represent? correct answer: Neoplatonism What do Pyrrhonic skeptics maintain? correct answer: People should suspend judgment about all things. What did Aquinas maintain concerning the human soul? correct answer: It is a direct creation of God. Which argument did St. Augustine use to refute total Academic skepticism? correct answer: When we are in doubt we can at least know that we exist as a doubter. What did Hypatia think about the study of mathematics and astronomy? correct answer: They were part of a way of life and a means of testing the implications of Platonic and Neoplatonic metaphysics and epistemology. St. Augustine rejected this Neoplatonic claim. correct answer: The highest reality is the One, an impersonal, indefinable, and indescribable god. What is asserted by the principle of noncontradiction? correct answer: A proposition and its contradictory opposite can't both be true at the same time. How did St. Thomas Aquinas distinguish philosophy from theology? correct answer: Philosophy is based on reason while theology is based on divine revelation and faith. Which view of Aristotle's did Aquinas disagree with? correct answer: The essence of a thing is the same as its existence. What was clarity and distinctness a mark of, for Rene Descartes? correct answer: Truth Which claim did Descartes use to establish the certainty of his own existence? correct answer: I think, therefore I am. Which statement would Thomas Hobbes have accepted? correct answer: All psychological states derive ultimately from perception. Which claim about God did Anne Conway make: correct answer: God is an eternal creator. Anne Conway advocated what sort of metaphysics? correct answer: Monadology