Mid-term review sheet for HIS3460

I list below terms and subjects with which you should be familiar. Some may come from your reading.

Augustine, natural science, and religion

Roger Bacon on role of philosophy

Problems between Greek thought (Aristotle) and Christianity

Thomas Aquinas's achievement

Handmaiden thesis

Nicholas of Cusa's position on reason

William of Ockhams's position

The achievement of Copernicus

Luther on Copernicus

Brahe's compromise

Galileo

His view of the power of reason

The Galileo affair - the issues and events

The church's verdict, 1992

Kepler on the role of reason

From organic to mechanical metaphors

Mechanical philosophy of Descartes

Newton

His achievement in natural philosophy

His overall religious outlook

His disagreement with Leibniz over God's relationship to nature

The outlooks of Hobbes and Spinoza and their significance

Age of Enlightenment

Its respect for the role of reason

            The classical argument from design

            Three warnings

Voltaire - use of the problem of evil

Hume - critiques of causality, argument from design

Kant - rescuing reason from the "black abyss"

Mechanism and natural theology