Philo to Boethius

O 27-39


1. The Greek legacy in philosophy is summarized in what two questions?


2. Who saved Christianity by combining it with Greek philosophy?


3.  What Jewish Platonist equated Plato's "Good" (and other Ideas or Universals) with God?

4. What Christian Platonist noticed that Plato's two worlds (intelligible & visible)  resembled Christianity's heaven & earth? How did he interpret the Bible? 


5. Who was Plotinus? His version of God, also known as _____, "emanates" power (as the sun emanates light) down through what stages? What was his view of matter, nature, and the human body?

6. (T/F) Christianity after Plotinus tolerated all forms of free thought.

7. The end of scientific free thinking and the beginning of the Dark Ages are symbolized in the death of what pagan philosopher/scientist/mathematician? By whom is it thought her execution ordered? 

8. (T/F) The Roman Empire fell, according to Gibbon, because (unlike Christianity) it was overly superstitious and austere.

9. The Nicene Creed established whose identity as Christian orthodoxy, completing what "triumph"?  

10. ________ (Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Gregory) was the only "Father" who was also a  philosopher. What did he say about reason and truth, and about past and future?

11. What stoic, condemned to death by Emperor Theodoric, found consolation in philosophy (which he personified as a beautiful woman)?