Exam #1 (Metaphysics) Flashcards

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Systematic use of critical reasoning to try to find answers to fundamental questions about reality, morality, and knowledge.

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Philosophical Method

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Ideas upon which other ideas and beliefs depend.

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Fundamental Ideas

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3
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Intellectual foundation to improve our lives by improving our philosophy

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Practical benefit

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Understanding for its own sake

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Theoretical benefit

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5
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Philosophical inquiry gives us

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Freedom

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Regarding the nature of ultimate reality, God’s existence, the meaning of life

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Metaphysics

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Regarding the nature of knowledge, justification and truth

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Epistemology

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The study of individual and social morality

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Ethics

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9
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The study of arguments

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Logic

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10
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Major Areas of Philosophy:

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Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, and Logic

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Intended to give logically conclusive support to their conclusions so that if the premises are true, the conclusion absolutely must be true. (a.k.a. a priori knowledge)

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Deductive Arguments

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12
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Give probable support to their conclusions but are not designed to support their conclusions decisively; if their premises are true, their conclusions are probably true. (a.k.a. a posteriori knowledge)

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Inductive Arguments

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13
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These arguments reason from the existence of the universe to the conclusion that God exists as its necessary creator (a posteriori).

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Cosmological

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These arguments reason from apparent signs of design or purpose in the natural world to the existence of a supreme designer as its creator (a posteriori).

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Teleological

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15
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These arguments present deductive logical appeals for God’s existence from the
concept of God itself (a priori).

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Ontological

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16
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These arguments arise from people who claim to have had personal experiences or encounters with God.

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Religious Experience

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These arguments assert that an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-good God would not allow evil to exist; because evil does exist, then God does not therefore exist.

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Argument from Evil

18
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These are theistic counterarguments against the argument from evil; the most
popular and effective of these is the free-will defense, which says evil exists because God gave humans free will.

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Theodicies

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One who believes in God.

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Belief in a creator God who is uninvolved (and possibly unconcerned) with the events of
the physical universe.

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God and the universe are indentical; the universe is a part of God

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Pantheism, Panthenism

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Which appeal to the evidence of
experience about the world

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A posteriori

23
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Which are based on logic and reason derived from the concept of God.

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Reasons to Believe

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Epistemic justification

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Faith has practical benefits
Pragmatic justification
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A decision between two hypotheses.
Option
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One in which both hypotheses are real and possible.
Living Option
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An option in which there is no possibility of not choosing.
Forced Option
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“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
W.K. Clifford's Evidentialism
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Comes from human choices and actions, and the bad things that arise from them.
Mortal Evil
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Results from the workings of nature.
Natural Evil
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It is a great good that humans have a certain sort of free and responsible choices that also creates the neutral possibility of moral evil.
The Free Will Defense
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“Antitheistic writers…assume that the purpose of a loving God must be to create a hedonistic paradise…the model of a human being building a cage for a pet animal to dwell in." - John Hick
The Soul-Making Defense