Which among the following is valuable for St. Augustine to attain the Knowledge of divine?
A. Logic
B. Ethics
C. Metaphysics
D. Epistemology
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Which one of the following is not acceptable to St. Thomas Aquinas?
A. Casual regress cannot be infinite
B. A perfect being is the source of various perfections in the world
C. The existence of God is a self-evident truth for man
D. The source of contingent things must lie in a necessary being
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Every creature should consist essentially the following attributes.
A. Being, knowledge and existence
B. Being, Volition and Knowledge
C. Knowledge, faith and reason
D. Existence, faith and experience
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According to St. Thomas Aquinas, the world is
A. Created
B. Eternal
C. Full of contradiction
D. None of these
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Consider the followirig statements with reference to Thomas Aquinas.
1. Aquinas rejected doctrines of universal hylomorphism and plurality of forms.
2. Human being has a single rational soul, which acts as the one substantial form.
3. Only in God there is no composition at all, his essence is purely and simply his act of existing.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
A. 2 and 3
B. 1 and 2
C. 1 and 3
D. All of the above
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Which philosopher sets the plan for whole Christian philosophy?
A. St. Augustine
B. St. Anselm
C. St. Aquinas
D. All of these
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According to Aquinas, there is/are
A. Three souls in man
B. Only one soul
C. Two souls in man
D. None of these
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Theology has a higher status than philosophy. It is the view of
A. Locke
B. St. Thomas Aquinas
C. Kant
D. None of these
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Aquinas engaged in mixed enterprise and this mixed enterprise bears out his two main, principles.
A. Superstition and myth
B. Ethics and theology
C. Faith and reason
D. Belief and knowledge
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Consider the following statements with reference to St. Anselm and mark correct answer:
1. The attempted to find necessary reasons for the truths of the faith.
2. "I believe in order to understand".
3. By God we mean "that than which no greater can be thought".
A. Only 1 is true
B. Only 3 is true
C. Only 1 and 3 is true
D. All 1, 2 and 3 are true
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Which one of the following statements is true with reference to St. Thomas Aquinas?
A. God's essence is identified with reason
B. God's essence is identified with his existence, as pure actuality
C. God's essence is identified with his potentiality
D. God has only existence, but no essence
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Physical evil is taken as what?
A. Theory of acceptability
B. Theory of Seminal good
C. Theory of appearance
D. Theory of expression
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Ontological Argument' in favour of the existence of God was popularised by
A. Descartes
B. Descartes and St. Anselm
C. Hume
D. Berkeley
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According to the Ex nihilo Theory of St. Augustine
A. God created the world out of the existent
B. God created the world out of nothing
C. Cod created the evil out of something
D. God created himself out of nothing
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Who propounds the ontological argument for the existence of God?
A. Aristotle
B. St. Augustine
C. St. Anselm
D. St. Aquinas
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The highest reality of the cosmos for Aristotle was actus purus, but St. Thomas Aquinas regarded
A. Personal God as the highest reality
B. Universe as at highest reality
C. Pure soul as the highest reality
D. None of the above
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What constitutesthe highest knowledge for St. Augustine?
A. Knowledge of Divine
B. Grace of Being
C. Only B
D. Both A and B
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The first proof for the existence of God, given by St. Aquirias is
A. From efficient cause
B. From contingency
C. From teleological argument
D. From motion
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What is the best attribute used for a God?
A. First mover
B. Unmoved mover
C. Ex Motu
D. All of these
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Who proved the existence of God through arguments based on ontology?
A. St. Thomas Acquinas
B. St. Anselm
C. St. Augustine
D. All of the above
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