Quotes, Verses And Concepts Flashcards
God is love
1 John 4:8
God made mankind in his own image
imago dei
genesis 1:27
God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life
Genesis 2:7
Love one another as I have loved you
John 13:34
There is neither jew nor greek, neither slave nor free, nor is there male or female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus
St paul
galatians 3:28
Set your minds on things above, not earthly things
Colossians 3:2
your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit
you are not your own
1 Corinthians 6:19
The authorities that exist have been established by God
Romans 13:1
In him there is no sin
1 John 3:5
Natural moral law (Aquinas)
P - preserve innocent life
O - ordered society
W - worship God
E - educate children
R - reproduce
The Harm Principe
J.S.Mill
Librelism
Conservatism
Roger Scruton
We ought to conserve our traditions
Perfect being theology
God is perfect and complete in every aspect
He is omnipotent, omniscient etc.
Divine Command theory
All moral requirements come from God’s commands
In the beginning god created the heavens and the earth
ex nihilo
Genesis 1:1
Epicurean argument for universe
The universe is not finite in size so must have always existed
Kant on superiority of humans quote
As sole being on the earth who has reason, humans are certainly the lord of nature
I created [humans] for my glory
God
Isiah 43:7
The universe is just there and that’s all
Bertrand Russell
Take care of it [the earth]
Genesis 2
Fill the earth and subdue it
Genesis 1
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the father is not in them
1 John 2:15
Deep ecology
change our relationship with nature to realise that it has inherent value
Arne Naess
Take care of Eden
Stewardship
Genesis 2
Speciesism
Peter Singer
Everything that lives and moves about will be food for you
Genesis 9
God to Noah
Every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood
Genesis 8:20
Substance dualism
(And argument for)
Mind is a non physical thing separate from the body
Rene Descartes
Divisibility Argument
Those who believe in him will not perish but have eternal life
John 3:16
‘The mind displays all the marks of morality’
Lucretius
Ockham’s Razor
we should not multiply entities beyond necessity
Logical Positivism
No point to talk about it if cant be empirically verified
Empiricists
Knowledge comes from sensory experience
Principle of testimony
Richard Swinburn
Pragmatism
William James
We ought to belive what will make a positive contribution to out lives
Three poisons
Greed (lobha)
Hatred
Ignorance
The death insticnt
Sigmund Freud
We have a ‘desire for aggression’
Jean Paul Sartre on humans
we are beings for itself
Pelagianism
Pelagius
Humans have an essncial goodness and have free will
Predestination (general)
God already knows those he intend to save
Calvinism
Double Predestination
St Augustine
God decided on people for heaven regardless of how they live their life
Pelagiun Predestination
God has foreknowledge of our actions in life so sends us to heaven according to our goodness
Hard Determinism
Determinism is true becasue of universal causation, therefore we dont have free will