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Summa: Question 5 Exam

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Question 1

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What is found in the essence of a thing, in its mode of being, in its specific kind, and in its tendency to its end?
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  • books
  • the same thing
  • necessity
  • positive being (and perfection or actuality)

Question 2

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Goodness and being are:
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  • seemly and virtuous
  • desirable
  • really the same thing
  • necessarily good

Question 3

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Between goodness and being there IS:
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  • a logical distinction
  • a real distinction
  • a moral distinction
  • a rational distinction

Question 4

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What defines goodness?
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  • desirability
  • the pleasing
  • a final cause
  • a book

Question 5

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The human idea of being is prior to:
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  • our idea of goodness
  • our goal of a desire or tendency
  • our pleasure
  • our positive being

Question 6

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A thing is good in so far as it has:
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  • distinct mental approaches to the same thing
  • positive being
  • direction
  • magnitude

Question 7

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Good may be classified as:
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  • the action which seeks to attain it
  • the goal of a desire or tendency
  • the pleasing
  • the just

Question 8

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A real distinction would be between:
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  • a final cause and another cause
  • a thing with wheels
  • a thing and a thing
  • the goal and the tendency

Question 9

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As humans we make a distinction between goodness and being because we can thing of being without noticing:
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  • the color of its eyes
  • the action which seeks to attain it
  • that it is a logical distinction
  • that it is necessarily good

Question 10

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Goodness has the character of:
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  • a thing at all
  • a final cause
  • a thing and a thing
  • a logical distinction

Question 11

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Good may be classified as:
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  • a real distinction
  • really the same thing
  • seemly or virtuous
  • perfection or actuality

Question 12

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Positive being is:
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  • the action which seeks to attain it
  • perfection or actuality
  • the goal of a desire or tendency
  • an appetite or appetency

Question 13

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What do we discern in a reality, in its mode, in its species, and in its direction to its end, goal, or purpose?
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  • goodness
  • desirability
  • a final cause
  • the useful

Question 14

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Perfection is:
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  • desirable
  • goodness
  • unity
  • the useful

Question 15

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A thing has goodness in so far as it can be:
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  • the pleasing
  • the goal of a desire or tendency
  • the action which seeks to attain it
  • the useful

Question 16

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A thing can be the goal of a tendency by the fact that it is:
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  • a final cause
  • the goal of a desire or a tendency
  • a thing and a thing
  • a thing at all or that it has being

Question 17

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We are aware of a being as such before we are aware:
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  • that it is desirable or good
  • that it is necessarily good
  • that there is an action which seeks to attain it
  • that it is pleasing

Question 18

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Between goodness and being there is NOT:
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  • a logical distinction
  • a real distinction
  • a political distinction
  • a verbal distinction

Question 19

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Goodness causes:
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  • the action which seeks to attain it
  • everyone to be happy
  • the end of all wars and persecutions
  • the need for more good

Question 20

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A logical distinction would be between:
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  • distinct mental approaches to the same thing
  • football and rugby
  • the discernment of a cause
  • the universal principle

Question 21

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That is called good which answers:
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  • an appetite or appetency
  • the questions on this quiz
  • anything at all
  • actions of the participant
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