QUIZ ON WORLDVIEW THINKING (NASH CHAPTER ONE)



PLATO, ARISTOTLE& PLOTINUS

(NASH CHAPTERS 3, 4 & 5 PLUS THE COURSEPACK READINGS ON PLATO & ARISTOTLE)

40 points

Create an answer sheet and email it to the instructor upon completion..

▪ One point possible for each correctly answered multiple choice or matching question.

▪ Up to 2½ points for each written answer

▪ – 4. Match each Bible passage with the teaching of Plato it best represents.

1) Exodus 25:40 ______

2) 1 Kings 3:9-13 ______

3) 2 Corinthians 4:18 ______

4) Proverbs 14:32-34 ______

A. The philosopher makes the best king.

B. Sensed perceptions of physical things are inadequate to produce knowledge.

C. Virtue frees the individual from fear and brings health and prosperity to the city-state (the polis).

D. There is a realm of perfections after which all physical things are imperfect copies.

5. Plato taught that three forces influence the human soul: Appetites, Spirit, and Reason. Select the item below that depicts the correct metaphors or symbols Plato used to teach this.

A. APPETITES: Lion, unruly horse

SPIRIT: Multi-headed beast, tamed horse

REASON: Man, charioteer

B. APPETITES: Man, unruly horse

SPIRIT: Multi-headed beast, tamed horse

REASON: Lion, charioteer

C. APPETITES: Multi-headed beast, unruly horse

SPIRIT: Lion, tamed horse

REASON: Man, charioteer

D. APPETITES: Lion, unruly horse

SPIRIT: Multi-headed beast, tamed horse

REASON: Man, charioteer

6. Plato’s Allegory of the Cave teaches that

A. democracy is the best form of government

B. men are enslaved by their flawed belief in God

C. people need to use their eyes and other senses to perceive things more clearly

D. everyone can achieve true understanding of what is really real

E. individual liberty is more important than national stability

7. To what did Socrates seek to persuade people to give their greatest care?

A. A. their money

B. their souls

C. their state

D. their king

E. their wives

8. How would Socrates respond to the common modern-day claim that religion and philosophy should never be mixed?

A. Mixing religion and anything else is a recipe for disaster

B. Yahweh gave me this ability and I should use it for His glory

C. Religion looks to the things of the next world, and philosophy looks to the things of this world

D. The gods told me that I was the wisest man, and I took this as a sacred challenge

E. Zeus and Hera have disagreed on the role of religion in public life.

9. The four virtues Plato aspired to are

A. patience, love, joy and temperance

B. wisdom, temperance, courage and justice

C. thrift, cunning, speed, agility

D. prudence, temperance, knowledge, strength

E. loyalty, courage, resourcefulness, flexibility

10. According to the dialogue in which Glaucon is the chief speaker, the Ring of Gyges proves that

A. men can be trusted to do what is right

B. men can’t be trusted to do what is right

C. with the right upbringing, the good in men will prevail

D. men will sacrifice in order to be virtuous

E. in the right environment, the good nature of men will overcome evil

11. Aristotle is important to students of the Bible because he had a great influence upon which theologian?

A. Anaximander

B. Augustine

C. Aquinas

D. Archibald

E. Kosmo Kramer

12. For Aristotle, the best way to gain knowledge of particular things was to ________ them

A. ponder

B. observe

C. question

D. experiment with

E. worship

13. IN ORDER TO GET CREDIT FOR CORRECTLY ANSWERING THIS QUESTION, YOU MUST SELECT ALL THE CHOICES THAT APPLY. By rejecting Plato’s Two Worlds Theory, Aristotle could reject Plato’s

A. belief in forms

B. Two Kinds of Knowledge Theory

C. Virtue

D. Body and Soul Theory

E. Polis Theory

14. Aristotle believed that every substance had two kinds of properties:

A. Mediterranean Avenue and Boardwalk

B. Gravity and Mass

C. Accidental and Essential

D. Consequential and Trivial

E. Identity and Unity

15. The material cause of a ribeye steak is the

A. meat

B. cook

C. grill

D. A-1 sauce

E. Stomach

16. The formal cause of the book Life’s Ultimate Questions can be described as

A. Ronald Nash

B. Paper with words, binding, philosophical explanations, index

C. Zondervan Publishers

D. students knowing philosophy

E. world peace

17. Your entelechy is your

A. gland that secretes digestive juices

B. final answer

C. final form

D. final accident

E. final chance

18. According to Aristotle, the ultimate goal of human life is

A. peace

B. power

C. love

D. happiness

E. virtue

19. The difference between being fully human and being merely human is that the latter requires _________ to be added to the ____________ of being human.

A. omniscience … limiting properties

B. limiting properties … essential properties

C. invisibility … visible properties

D. immortality … essential properties

20. Plato and Aristotle ___________ that ultimate reality is knowable.

A. agree

B. disagree

21. For Aristotle, the passive intellect can be understood as that which provides the caption for an image.

A. True

B. False

22. The image that best typifies Plato’s idea of the Forms is the

A. chariot

B. circle

C. ring of Gyges

D. flame

E. ladder

F. SHORT ANSWER TOPICS: (Up to 10 points total for this section: 4 x 2½)

23. Pretend that you are Plato. Choose two of the worldview questions, and devise a short answer to each (1/2 page for each).

-What is really real?

-Why is there something rather than nothing?

-How do you explain human nature?

-What happens to a person after death?

-How do you determine what is right and wrong?

-Why is it possible to know anything at all?

-What is the meaning of history?

24. Pretend that you are Aristotle. Choose two of the worldview questions, and devise a short answer to each (1/2 page for each).

-What is really real?

-Why is there something rather than nothing?

-How do you explain human nature?

-What happens to a person after death?

-How do you determine what is right and wrong?

-Why is it possible to know anything at all?

-What is the meaning of history?

ASSESSMENT ON PLOTINUS

For 10 points

25. Write a 100-150 word response to four of the following questions about Plotinus (2½ points each, 10 points total):

A. The downward path is the path of “becoming.” What does that term “becoming” mean in Plotinus’ worldview?

B. The upward path is the path of “being.” Why does Nash also call this the path of salvation, in Plotinus’ worldview?

C. Does God take an active role in creating or saving?

D. Explain the term nous as used by Plotinus.

E. According to Plotinus, the world contains more b______________ than s____________, and more s__________ than minds. Fill in the blanks, and explain.

F. Do the souls of individuals live forever, according to Plotinus? How about the souls of plants?

G. Why does Plotinus teach that matter becomes the principle of evil?

H. Calling God “The One” brings with it a problem. What is the problem of multiplicity, with Plotinus seeing God as “The One?”

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