PHIL100J Final: Philosophy Exam Review
1 Sep 2015
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Like aristotle, aquinas rejected plato"s idea that a world of forms exists separately from the physical world. Also, he believed in using inductive reasoning to arrive at generalizations or universals. Unlike aristotle, aquinas was operating within a distinctly christian framework, and he believed that the world is orderly and intelligible, or able to be understood, because it reflects the nature of god. Aquinas" most famous work, summa theologica, in which he used the methods of plato and aristotle reason and abstraction to explain the christian faith. In his philosophy, he combined the christian idea of god with aristotle"s thinking about reason, happiness, and virtue. People can achieve perfection only by using their reason to know god. Aristotle believed in natural law, which he described as a force of nature that is reasonable and purposeful. In his view, natural law governs both natural and social orders.
