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Upon completing this chapter you should be able to:
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1. Explain the similarities and differences between the metaphysics of Plato, Plotinus and St. Augustine. |
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2. Define skepticism and distinguish between total and modified skepticism, and between Academic skeptics and Pyrrhonic skeptics. |
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3. Explain Sextus Empiricus's basic argument for Pyrrhonic skepticism. |
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4. Identify Hypatia and describe her importance to ancient scholarship in astronomy and mathematics. |
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5. Show how Aquinas distinguished between philosophy and theology and how he blended Aristotle with Christianity in his metaphysics, epistemology and treatment of soul and God. |