Western Civ I Questions: Week 27

     As I prepare to write a post concerning ancient Western civilization, I stop to ask myself a few questions, find your personal answers if you wish, this will likely come up in my next or last post and might interest you further.

Later Scholastics - The Rise of Towns

• In terms of war and peace, do the ends ever justify the means? When would that be the case?
  

• What is the relevance of the dispute between the beliefs of Thomas Aquinas and the later scholastics? Who is more correct?
  

• What is the correlation between art and spirituality, such as theology and philosophy? Why is art so important to human nature and culture?
  

• Define liberty, or freedom, or free will. What does that actually mean? Has humankind ever experienced that?