9/14 Discussion

What does Aquinas say is an abominable error against faith? 

• That someone besides God created the world 

• That gods power is infinite 

• That the Earth and a beginning and wasn’t made from eternity 

• Misuse of Aristotle's works  

Who made the following argument against Aristotle’s belief that “It is impossible for the infinite in number to be ordered”? (Bonaventure or Aquinas)

Does Bonaventure agree or disagree with the quote, “It is impossible that there be simultaneously an infinite number of things”. 

• Agree

• Disagree

What were St. Bonaventure’s vs. Aristotle’s views on whether or not the Earth had a beginning?

• Aristotle & Bonaventure agreed the world has a beginning

• Aristotle: The world is eternal

  Bonaventure: The world has a beginning

• Aristotle & Bonaventure agreed the world is eternal

• Aristotle: The world has a beginning

  Bonaventure: the world is eternal

Which of these was something that sparked change in the way medieval thinkers viewed and interacted with the ideas of an eternal or non eternal world?

• The Fourth Lateran Council

• “Sentences” by Peter Lombard

• The translation of Aristotle's books into Latin

• “De viris illustribus” by St. Jerome

In the reading, theologians who believed the world had a beginning used what to support their argument?

• Aristotle’s arguments for infinity

• “City of God” by St. Augustine

• “Phaedo” by Plato

• Socrete’s ideas of human ignorance

Aristotle’s arguments on eternity are flawed according to Aquinas because

• motion is not relevant to eternity 

• they don’t take into account God being the creator 

• he was only taking into account the universal cause 

• it misunderstands infinity in relation to creation 

What was Henry of Harclay’s controversial opinion?

• The infinite cannot be traversed, and all infinities are equal

• The infinite can be traversed, and not all infinities are equal

• The infinite can be traversed, all infinities are equal

• The infinite cannot be traversed, and not all infinities are equal

Who said it?

“For some say that the world has been from eternity. Wise men agree that something could not come from nothing and in this way [could not]

be from eternity…” 

• Bonaventure

• Aquinas

According to Aquinas does eternity precede time? 

• Yes, eternity existed without time and preceded time itself

• No, eternity began along with time