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Philosophy I Flashcards

Arguments, Attributes, Problem of Evil

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Attributes

Numbers 23:19

God = immutable and eternal

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God is not human that he should change his mind

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Attributes

Isaiah 55:8

Can’t know God

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For your thoughts are not my thoughts, neither are your ways my ways

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Attributes

Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism

God as eternal and sempiternal

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A very lifeless thing

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Attributes

Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

Free Will

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God’s foreknowledge does not impose necessity on things

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Attributes

Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith

Omniscience

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The one or the other’s freedom is thereby [not] endangered

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Attributes

Anselm, Proslogion VII

Omnipotence

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God can do nothing by virtue of impotence

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Attributes

Anthony Kenny, The God of the Philosophers

Omnipotence

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Posession of all logically possible powers which it is logically possible for a being with the attributes of God to possess

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Attributes

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Criticism of Cartesian Voluntarism

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Whatever implies a contradiction cannot be a word

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Attributes

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Omnipotence and Problem of Evil

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If God metes out infinite punishment for finite crimes, then God is omnivindictive

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Attributes

Isaiah 38

Simpiternal God

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[King Hezekiah about to die but prays to God, and God adds 15 years of life]

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Attributes

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

God can do anything logically possible

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Everything that does not imply a contradiction in terms

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Attributes

Peter Vardy, The Puzzle of God

Criticism of Cartesian Voluntarism

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This could not be a God worth worshipping

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Attributes

Descartes, Letter to Antoine Arnauld

Cartesian Voluntarism

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Only involve a contradiction in my conception

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Attributes

Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism

McEar

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Absurd

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Arguments - Ontological

Gaunilo, Pro Insipiente

Against Anselm

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It must be said that the island exists

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Arguments - Ontological

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

2 Criticisms of Anselm, three quotes

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[Reject] Subject and definitional alike
Existence is not a predicate
All existential statements are synthetic

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Arguments - Teleological

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Order and Purpose to the World - Qua Purpose

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They achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly

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Arguments - Teleological

William Paley, Natural Theology

Complexity = Care

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We have no reason to fear our being forgotten

19
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Arguments - Teleological

Isaac Newton, Principia

Design and God

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[Creation] could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being

20
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Arguments - Cosmological

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

1st Way

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Nothing can be reduced from potentiality to actuality [except by something in a state of actuality]

21
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Arguments - Cosmological

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

2nd Way

A

A first efficient cause

22
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Arguments - Cosmological

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

World and God

A

Why may not several deities combine in contriving and framing the world

23
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Arguments - Teleological

J. S. Mill, Three Essays on Religion

Natural Evil and Design - Qua Regularity

A

Not even on the most distorted theory of good [could the world look like the work of an omnibenevolent God]

24
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Arguments - Cosmological

Bertrand Russell, Why I am not a Christian

Cosmological x3

A

Different Logical Spere
Brute Fact
I should just say that the universe is there and that is all

25
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Arguments - Cosmological

Frederick Copleston

3rd Way

A

A reason external to themselves

26
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Arguments - Cosmological

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

3rd Way

A

The words… necessary existence have no meaning

If you can concieve it not existing

27
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Problem of Evil

Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith

Against Augustinian Theodicy

A

God would create flawlessly

28
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Problem of Evil

Genesis 1:31

World was perfect

A

God saw all that he had made and behold it was very good

29
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Problem of Evil

Augustine

Reason for Privatio Boni

A

I thought it better to believe you had created no evil [rather than] it came from you

30
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Problem of Evil

Romans 3:8

Consequentialism and Soul Making

A

Do not do evil so that good may come

31
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Problem of Evil

William Rowe, The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism

Evidential Problem

A

Such suffering suggests an absent God

32
Q

Problem of Evil

John Hick, Evil and the God of Love

World with no evil or difficulty

A

Morally static

33
Q

Problem of Evil

D.Z. Philips, The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Good

Criticisms of Irenaeus’ instrumentalism

A

Like rescuing a prostitue from degradation by telling her to charge higher fees

34
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Problem of Evil

Augustine

Free Will

A

The evil of mankind has sprung from the free choice of the will

35
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Problem of Evil

Augustine, Enchiridion

Privatio Boni

A

What is it that we call evil but the absence of good?

36
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Attributes

CCC

Omnibenevolence and Anonymous Christianity

A

Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel… may achieve eternal salvation

37
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Attributes

Philippians 7:2

Kenosis

A

He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant

38
Q

Problem of Evil

Irenaeus, Against Heresies

Irenaean Theodicy

A

Moral and spiritual growth comes through response to challenges

39
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Problem of Evil

Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism

Free Will Defence

A

The less God allows men to bring about large scale horrors, the less freedom and responsibility he gives them

40
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Arguments - Teleological

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

World’s Purpose

A

No purpose in mind

41
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Arguments - Teleological

William Paley, Natural Theology

Teleological Argument

A

There cannot be design without a designer

42
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Arguments - Teleological

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Teleological Argument

A

The world is more like a cabbage than a machine

43
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Arguments - Cosmological

Elizabeth Anscombe, Whatever has a beginning must have a cause: Hume’s argument exposed

Response to Hume’s charge of fallacy of composition

A

Without absurdity of contradiction

44
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Attributes

Elonore Stump

Eternity and action

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God cannot alter the past but he can alter the course of the battle of Waterloo

A Level Theology (17 decks)

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