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What is The Summa Theologica?
The name of the book from which Aquinas writes.
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What is wanting to be God?
Name the sin of Satan.
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What is Cordoba, Spain?
Name the city/country in which Maimonides wrote/studied.
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What is the Myth of Sisyphus?
Name the work we read from Camus.
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What is existentialism says purpose to life can be created; nihilism says there is no purpose.
Name the difference between existentialism and nihilism.
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What is 1) motion 2) efficient cause 3)possibility/necessity 4) degrees 5) order ?
Name 3 of Aquinas' 5 Proofs for the existence of God.
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What is the Jews?
Name the people God spent centuries hammering their heads right conduct.
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What is The Guide for the Perplexed?
Name the book from which Maimonides wrote.
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What is when he descended the hill AND when he was conscience of his fate?
Name the time(s) when Sisyphus' fate was tragic.
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What is the Philosopher of the Hammer?
Name the nickname of Nietzsche.
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What is motion has more to do with change; efficient cause has more to do with going into/out of existence.
Name the difference between Aquinas' argument from motion and efficient cause.
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What is lunatic, liar, Lord?
Name the 3 L alternatives CS Lewis gives for the person of Jesus Christ.
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What is ignorance (I would also take non-existence)?
Name the origin of evil, according to Maimonides.
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What is 1) Ability to continue to love the world, despite its lack of meaning. 2) Master of his own fate. 3) ‘All is well’–acceptance 4)“His scorn of the gods, his hatred of death, and his passion for life…” (1199)
5) Perseverance
Name 3 reasons why Camus may consider Sisyphus a hero.
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What is humans are the new gods?
Name the status of humans, according to Nietzsche.
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What is 1) We can only know what God is not 2) God's effects are finite and he is infinite 3) the existence of God is an article of faith, not reason ?
Name one of the objections Aquinas responds to in the question: "Is the existence of God provable?"
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What is another great moral teacher?
Name the thing Lewis said Jesus Christ could NOT be.
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What is natural evil, evils against other men, evils against the self.
Name Maimonides 3 kinds of evil and examples of each.
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What is meaningless labor?
What was Sisyphus' punishment meant to represent?
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What is it does not? What is, the will to power supersedes physics?
Explain how the will to power applies to physics.
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What is the argument from degrees (the 4th proof)?
The proof of Aquinas' that is most similar to Anselm's Ontological Argument?
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What is Modern Philosophy?
Name the philosophical epoch that CS Lewis is a part of.
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What is to show how the things that are the most accessible are the things we truly need?
Name the purpose of the analogy Maimonides uses when referencing water, air, and food.
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What is Algeria (French colony)?
Name the place where Camus was from.
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What is Syphilis?
What is the most commonly believed cause of death for Nietzsche?
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