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11 Cards in this Set
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Imperfect vs. Perfect Beatitude for St. Thomas Aquinas
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Perfect- the afterlife
imperfect- we can never fully be happy bc we will never know god |
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Eternal Law
(& how St. Thomas used it to merge Aristotle and Christianity |
-everything is created to move towards its own perfection (like telos!!)
-said we are trying to to immate God's perfection |
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What advantage did Copernicus' model of the universe have over Ptolemy's?
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Copernicus gave us a heliocentric model, while Ptolemy gave us a geocentric one.
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Significance of Galileo's sepration of science and theology
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believed "scriputes tell us how to go to heaven, they don't tell us how heaven goes"
- we should interpret scriptures in terms of our scientific knowledge. |
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Artistotles use of math in the natrual sciences..why did he chose a qualitative approach?
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he believed what makes something real is its substance and that the purpose is telos..which is qualitative
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How is Galileo's discussion of uniform acceleration in falling bodies a step away from peripatatic forms of explaination?
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-That if it were not for wind & air resistance everything would fall at the same rate
-not basing it on anything..just his own idea. |
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How did Galileo's discovery of the Jupiter's moons contribute to arguments against geocentric model?
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-noticed Jupiter's moons orbit it, therefore our moon must orbit us, and then we must orbit the sun.
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Difference btw. Primary & Secondary models?
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-Primary- it's spacial demenstions & motion(quantitative)
-Secondary- everything else (qualitative & subjective) |
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How did Galileo use the change in sun spots to support his claim that earth is in motion?
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-thought the sunspots were moving..once he mapped it out he realized that they were not moving, but the earth was.
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Why does Galileo adopt a quantitative approach instead of a teliological one?
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believed the world could be described objectively using math.
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Galileo's principle of intertia and superposition
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inertia- an object will continue to move unless another object stops it
superposition- if 2 forces are working on an object @ the same time, the object will be subject to both those forces. |
