STUDY QUESTIONS
Please answer all of the following questions.
1. What are some of the main features of
Renaissance humanism?
2. Explain Petrarch’s stoic response to good and
bad fortune.
3. Explain Pico’s view of Plato’s three degrees
of created things, the great chain of being, and why humans are so unique.
4. What are the four key features of More’s
epicureanism in Utopia?
5. Explain Montaigne’s view of faith,
skepticism, and custom?
6. Explain Luther’s critique of Aristotle,
reason, and philosophy.
7. Explain the five points of Calvinism,
Calvin’s view of the sense of divinity, and his view of double predestination.
8. What are Herbert’s five common notions, his
view of non-Christian religions, and his view of faith and reason?
9. Explain Pascal’s view of skepticism, custom,
and the wager.
10. Explain Bacon’s view of induction,
Aristotle, and the three tables of investigation.
11. What is Galileo’s view about the role of
scripture in scientific investigation?
12. What are the three implications of the new
astronomy on conceptions of the world?
13. Explain Newton’s design argument from
probability and his view about God’s role as creator and sustainer of the
cosmos.
14. Explain Grotius’s views of just cause for
war and just conduct in war.
15. Explain Hobbes’s views of materialism, the
three causes of quarrel, the state of war, and the three laws of nature.
[Reading 1: Pico on Freedom and Dignity]
16. According to Pico, what are the common
explanations for why humans are unique?
17. Explain Pico’s account of God’s creation of
the world and humans.
18. Explain Pico’s reasoning for why it is
important to choose the higher type of life over the lower.
[Reading 2: Galileo on Science and Religion]
19. Explain Galileo’s reasoning on importance of
non-literal interpretation of scripture especially with science.
20. Explain Galileo’s reasoning on why salvation
is the primary purpose of scripture, not science.
Please answer all questions with at least two sentences similar information can be found at www.utm.edu philosphy 110 renaissance
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