AUGUSTINE 3 PRELIM 1

For ancient Greek Philosophers, to achieve _____ is every person's goal in life. (The answer is in English and in one word only)

• Wealth
• Fame
• Happiness

• Power

What is the best description of Manichean ethics?

• Light versus Darkness

• Light and Darkness do not conflict

• Emphasis on the body while rejecting the spiritual

Statement 1: Ethics is a speculative science of the morality of human acts.

Statement 2: Ethics only deals with human acts.

• A. First statement is true, second statement is false.

• B. First statement is false, second statement is true.

• C. Both statements are true.

• D. Both statement are false.

Statement 1: The ethics of Augustine deals with reaching true happiness that is found in God.

Statement 2: Augustine accepted the pagan moral philosophies if they are compatible with the Christian faith.

• A. First statement is true, second statement is false.

• B. First statement is false, second statement is true.

• C. Both statements are true.

• D. Both statement are false.

What is the Object of ethics?*

• Rectitude of any acts

• To give us directions on how to live a moral life.

• Rectitude of human acts

Augustine’s ethics revolves around

• Happiness

• Love

• Duality of Evil and Good

• Happiness and Love

It is the agreement or disagreement of human activity with the dictates of human reason.

• Morality

• Ethnicity

• Ethnicity

Answer A if it is a human act, or answer B if it is an act of man.

Reflex actions, such as withdrawing one’s hand after suffering an electric shock

• A

• B

Answer A if it is a human act, or answer B if it is an act of man.

Studying on a Friday night

• A

• B

When he was still studying, Augustine was primarily schooled in the moral philosophies of the following pagan philosophers:

• A. Plato, Aristotle, Seneca

• B. Aristotle, Cicero, Varro

• C. Cicero, Seneca, Varro

• D. Varro, Seneca, Plato