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WorksheetsSt. Thomas Aquinas Five Ways pt 1
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
For St. Thomas Aquinas' Four Causes, he refers the 'cause' to mean...
Cause and Effect
Reason for something
unmoved mover
uncaused cause
The First Cause is the...
Formal Cause
Material Cause
Efficient Cause
Final Cause
The 'idea of thing' refers to...
Formal Cause
Material Cause
Efficient Cause
Final Cause
The second cause is...
Formal Cause
Material Cause
Efficient Cause
Final Cause
'Stuff from which it is made' refers to the...
Formal Cause
Material Cause
Efficient Cause
Final Cause
The third cause is...
Formal Cause
Material Cause
Efficient Cause
Final Cause
'Agent' refers to...
Formal Cause
Material Cause
Efficient Cause
Final Cause
The fourth cause is...
Formal Cause
Material Cause
Efficient Cause
Final Cause
The recipe for a musubi would be the ______________ Cause
Formal
Material
Efficient
Final
An example for the Material Cause of a musubi would be rice, nori, and spam.
True
False
The cook or chef of the musubi would be the ___________ Cause.
Formal
Material
Efficient
Final
The question 'Does God exist?' is a __________________ question.
Philosophical
Theological
Mathematical
Biological
All of the following statements are true about Philosophy except...
"Love of Wisdom"
Regards natural knowledge
Body of knowledge we can know by reason.
"study of God"
All of the following are true about Theology except...
Body of knowledge we can know by divine revelation.
Pertains to truths known by prophecy or divine revelation
"Study of God"
Pertains only to what we can know by raw reason.
St. Thomas Aquinas says that, "God is not self evident."
True, we must reason to the conclusion that God exists.
False
Five Ways in Latin is...
Deo Gratias
Dominus Vobiscum
Quenqui Viae
Quinque Viae
St. Thomas' First Way is the Argument from...
Motion
Efficient Causes
Possibility
Design
Since all things are in motion, there must be something that is the first "_____________ ___________," which we call God.
unmoved mover
uncaused cause
unspoken word
unheard word
According to the Argument from Motion, only an actual motion can convert a potential motion into actual motion.
True
False
According to the Argument from Motion, anything can move itself.
True
False
All of the following are true about the Argument from Motion except..
Each thing in motion is moved by something else.
The sequence of motion can extend for infinity.
Nothing can move itself.
Nothing can be at once in both actuality and potentiality in the same respect.
St. Thomas' Second Way is the "Argument from ___________ __________."
Motion
Efficient Causes
Formal Causes
Material Causes
According to the Second Way of Thomas Aquinas, nothing exists prior to itself.
True
False
"If a previous efficient cause does not exist, neither does the thing that results."
True
False
The series of efficient causes cannot extend for infinity into the past, for then there would be no things existing now.
True
False
I have never seen this statement before in my life.
What is life?
