Thomas Aquinas
This is the year Thomas Aquinas was born.
What is 1225?
This is how many ways Thomas says the existence of God can be proved.
What is five?
This is the year Francis Bacon was born.
What is 1561?
This is what Bacon's new method was called.
What is empiricism?
This is what Thomas Aquinas was called in school.
What is the "dumb ox"?
These are who Thomas Aquinas was influenced by.
Who is Augustine and Arisotle?
These are the two truths about God that Aquinas taught in his Summa Theologica.
What are divine truth and human truth?
This is who Francis Bacon's grandfather was.
What is the tutor to Edward VI?
True or false: Francis thought the current state of education in 1605 was satisfactory.
What is false?
This is who Francis was a legal advisor to.
Who is Queen Elizabeth?
This is what the order of preachers was called that Thomas joined.
What are the Dominicans?
True or False: that God exists can be demonstrated.
What is true? (We can demonstrate God's existence through His effects in Creation.)
This is the highest legal rank that Francis reached.
What is Lord Chancellor?
This is how many vanities in studies (or bad ways of studying) that Francis says there are.
What is three?
This is the first argument to prove God's existence.
What is the argument of motion/the Unmoved Mover?
This is who taught Thomas.
Who is Albertus Magnus?
This is what the Fifth Way states.
What is "everything in the world acts for an end, but there must be an intelligent being that divinely guides the goal and end of everything?"
This is the philosophy that Francis began to pursue after graduating.
What is natural philosophy?
This is for specifically whom Francis wrote The Advancement of Learning to.
Who is King James I?
This is what Thomas's father's role was.
What is Lord and Knight?
This is how many siblings Thomas had.
What is eight?
This is what Thomas says in reply to the statement that "If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable; but there is evil in the world. Therefore, God does not exist." (Hint he discusses it in Article 3)
What is "This is part of the infinite goodness of God, that He should allow evil to exist, and out of it produce good" or "God uses evil for good."
This is what happened to Francis that forced him into retirement.
What is impeached by Parliament?
This is what the vanity of fantastical learning is.
What is "the pursuit of ideas that lack substantial foundations, like astrology and alchemy, ideas based upon vain imaginations?"
This is the third vanity of learning.
What is delicate learning?