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Packet 7: Bonus 5

The first printed book to be condemned by the Catholic church was this thinker’s pluralistic 900 Theses. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this thinker who quoted Abdala the Saracen in one work to describe the wonder of its title figure. This thinker described a progression of the Seraphim, Cherubim, and Throne in an oration on how the title figure can become angelic.
ANSWER: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola [prompt on Mirandola]
[10e] Pico della Mirandola, the author of the Oration on the Dignity of Man, was a thinker from this country who was patronized by Lorenzo de Medici while in Florence.
ANSWER: Italy [or Italian Republic; or Italia]
[10m] Pico della Mirandola argued that his Florentine academy contemporary Marsilio Ficino’s astrology undermined this concept. Viewing it as emerging from a “rational appetite,” St. Thomas Aquinas argued that this concept emerges from the intellects’ pursuit of the ultimate good.
ANSWER: free will [or liberum arbitrium; prompt on freedom; prompt on will]
<Philosophy, Aveek Sarkar> | VAULT II Packet 07

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Cary AcademyGrimsley010010E
Chapel Hill AEast Chapel Hill010010E
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