Capstone Humanities: the Early Modern Era

Question 1

Postulated geoheliocentricism; hired a research assistant to do the math

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Tycho Brahe

Question 2

Reality is

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orderly and open to observation & analysis

Question 3

Who said "Philosophy is written in...the universe...in the language of mathematics"?

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Galileo Galilei

Question 4

Which dualism hampered scientific development in the late middle ages?

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separate laws for earth and heavens

Question 5

Our purpose in life is to

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understand the laws of nature to God’s glory

Question 6

Clerk, politician and ambassador from Florence; author of The Prince

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Nicolo Machiavelli

Question 7

Wrote Pensees as a response to the over-emphasis on rationalistic religion

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Blaise Pascal

Question 8

Who did Galileo particularly upset in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems ?

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Pope Urban VIII

Question 9

Instead of “summae,” Renaissance thinkers produced these works; it is translated “whatever”

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Quodlibet

Question 10

Desire to return to original intellectual, theological, or artistic sources

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Ad fontes

Question 11

The cosmos operates by fixed laws, yet we are able to influence the working out of those laws

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Open System

Question 12

The sun and moon revolve around the earth, but the other planets revolve around the sun

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Geoheliocentricism

Question 13

What was at the center (the starting point) in Aristotelian physics?

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Earth

Question 14

Ancient Greek philosophers & his observations led to On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Question 15

The idea (contra Plato and Aristotle) that universals are merely names, not an ultimate reality

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Nominalism

Question 16

Morality is determined by

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reflecting on the consequences of any action

Question 17

Believed humans had no fixed place in the chain of being, but determine their place by choices

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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Question 18

Ultimate authority is

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God as revealed in nature

Question 19

Who said "Multiplicity ought not to be posited without necessity"?

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William of Ockham

Question 20

Humans are set between angels and animals; when you love something, you trade souls with it

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Marsiglio Ficino

Question 21

THIS QUESTION IS NOT ON THE TEST: "NOMA" is an acronym for

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non-overlapping magisteria

Question 22

The Renaissance began in

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Florence

Question 23

Published Novum Organum as an inductive approach to scientific research (contra Aristotle)

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Francis Bacon

Question 24

Humans are

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the crown of creation

Capstone Humanities: the Early Modern Era

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Capstone Humanities: the Early Modern Era

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