![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![Philosophy: The Power of Ideas](/sites/dl/free/076742011x/title/moorebruder_sm.jpg) Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e Brooke Moore Kenneth Bruder
Philosophers of the Hellenistic and Christian Eras
Key ObjectivesUpon completing this chapter you should be able to:
1.Explain the similarities and differences between the metaphysics of Plato, Plotinus and St. Augustine. |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | 2.Define skepticism and distinguish between total and modified skepticism, and between Academic skeptics and Pyrrhonic skeptics. |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | 3.Explain Sextus Empiricus's basic argument for Pyrrhonic skepticism. |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | 4.Identify Hypatia and describe her importance to ancient scholarship in astronomy and mathematics. |
![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | ![](/olcweb/styles/shared/spacer.gif) | 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. |
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