Test

Question 1

What did Kepler propose?

Answer 1

Proposed that the planets’ orbits are elliptical

Question 2

What did Tycho Brache propose?

Answer 2

Proposed earth is the center, sun revolves around the earth, and all else revolves around the sun

Question 3

What are epicycles?

Answer 3

They are life cycles

Question 4

Who invents the telescope?

Answer 4

Galileo

Question 5

What did Bellarmine SJ think?

Answer 5

If all this is true, we will have to rethink our understanding of scripture. He recommended to Galileo that he offer heliocentric theory as a “conjecture”.

Question 6

Deism

Answer 6

The clockmaker

Question 7

Voltaire’s Candide

Answer 7

Satire against Christian belief in providence, enormously popular

Question 8

Providence

Answer 8

God oversees all human events

Question 9

Descartes’ philosophy is built on the concept of systematic doubt. What is this?

Answer 9

You must doubt all things

Question 10

Who was Pascal?

Answer 10

Mathematical genius who invented a calculator, carried out experiments that proved he existence of a vacuum, and he began probability theory/calculus.

Question 11

What did Pascal write but not finish?

Answer 11

Pensees = “thoughts”

Question 12

What is a wager?

Answer 12

A bet

Question 13

What is the enlightenment?

Answer 13

The call to follow the “light” of reason and to leave the behind the “darkness of faith and superstition”.

Question 14

Deism

Answer 14

Belief in an all powerful, impersonal Supreme being - like Newton’s “clock maker” God.

Question 15

What put forth capitalist theory?

Answer 15

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations out forth capitalist theory.

Question 16

What did Edward Gibbon write?

Answer 16

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.

Question 17

Hat did Copernicus propose?

Answer 17

That the sun is the center. This is the heliocentric theory.

Question 18

Immanent

Answer 18

God is remaining with/in us. God cares deeply about us.

Question 19

Dis-cerno

Answer 19

To separate, to apart, distinguish.

Question 20

Ignatius’ criterion is like what?

Answer 20

It’s like the “Principle of Foundation”.

Question 21

Describe Pascal’s Wager

Answer 21

1. Humans are infinite and cannot understand God. Proofs are useless.
2. Human life is miserable. To be without activities is to realize how miserable you are.
3. Many people try to keep active or they seek endless entertainment.

Question 22

What does Diderot say?

Answer 22

Our nature is good. Evil choices come from bad reasoning. Education improves us.

Question 23

Ignatius on discernment

Answer 23

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