Philosophy Final Study Guide

Question 1

Ipsum esse subsistens

Answer 1

it is God’s way to exist, essence and existence are the same in God

Question 3

abstraction

Answer 3

the mental process by which we come to know universal forms through sensing particulars

Question 4

empiricism

Answer 4

all ideas come from sense experience

Question 5

nature

Answer 5

a principle cause of motion and rest in a substance (per se); what it does

Question 6

nominalism

Answer 6

man groups particulars under a single name; universals are not real, just asertations of the mind and language

Question 7

substance

Answer 7

individual, particular thing, what it is

Question 8

essence

Answer 8

the set of qualities that make a thing what it is

Question 9

potency

Answer 9

what something can become

Question 10

rationalism

Answer 10

the idea that reality can be explained through mathematical methods; math yields certainty, therefore it’s methods can find all truth

Question 11

telos

Answer 11

something’s end

Question 12

natural law

Answer 12

human’s end is not merely eudaimonia but union with God

Question 13

act

Question 14

used Aristotle to explain the Koran