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Chapter 16 Self-Quiz
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In the Aristotle-Ptolemy-Dante picture of the world,
heaven is understood to be quite literally up above us.
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space is thought to be infinite.
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the sun is located in the very center of the created universe.
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human beings are thought to be insignificant in comparison with the glories of the celestial bodies.
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Renaissance humanists
intensify the otherworldliness embedded in medieval culture by emphasizing that human perfection is possible only in the life to come.
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see clearly that a good human life, as represented in the classics, is incompatible with Christianity.
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celebrate the human being as the central fact in all the created world.
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tend to be pessimistic about humanity's prospects.
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Martin Luther
speaks of man as "maker and molder" of himself.
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upholds the Church as the legitimate interpreter of Scripture, lest chaos result from individual opinions.
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leaves the Church, resigning his priesthood in disgust over the selling of indulgences.
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stresses the grace of God and the inability of human beings to save themselves.
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In defending the theology of Sebond, Montaigne
shows that Sebond's arguments are superior to the arguments of those who criticized him.
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makes use of Plato's Forms to show that God is knowable to us.
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relies on Aristotle as the authority who showed us how to avoid infinite regress problems.
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says only that Sebond's arguments are as solid and firm as any.
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The new science
seems to require a distinction between primary and secondary qualities.
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shows how final causes actually work.
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puts the sun in the center of the universe.
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finally solves the old philosophical problems about knowledge.
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