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
Libertarianism on free will
We are free, therefore determinism must be false
Attributes of God
Omnipotent
Omnibenevolent
Omniscient
Necessary
Omnipotence of God views
Aquinas - can only do logical things
Descartes - can do impossible things
Transcendental Idealism
Kant
Ultimate reality is unknowable because all ideas of ultimate reality are simply imposed on the universe by our minds.
We can never truly see ultimate reality
Epicureanism
Everything made of indivisible atoms
Kalam Argument
Everything with beginning has cause
Universe has no scientific cause
Cause must be personal
Argument from contingency
Contingent things of universe need reason to exist
If everything was contingent, would be infinite reasons
There must be a non contingent being
The design Argument
William Paley
Since universe has complexity, it must have been designed
Reply to design argument
Even if universe designed, not necessarily by perfect being
David Hume
I am the way, the truth and the life
John 14:6
Aquinas - purpose leads to happiness
Telos leads to felicitas
Sigmund Freud on religion
Religion is an illusion to fulfill our wishes
Platinga’s free will defence
Against problem of evil
Without free will no good actions
If God was omnibenevolent, he would allow us free will even if it resulted in moral evil
John Hick soul making theory
Evil, pain and suffering allows humans to grow spiritually and become closer to god
Marxism
Capitalism responsible for evil
Civilization responsible for evil and suffering
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Effective Alturism
Peter singer
‘Living a full ethical life involves doing the most good we can’
Life would eventually become boring if we were eternal so we should not pursue immortality
Bernard Williams
The last Judgement
The book of Revelation
Samsara in bhagvad gita
‘So the embodied self casts out old bodies as it gets other, new ones’
Bhagavad Gita
Atheism on human purpose
Albert Camus
the idea we have an inherent purpose is absurd because only a creater could have assigned this but there is no creator
Hedonists
Aristippus
Jeremy Bentham
Philosophers have sought to understand the world, the point however, is to change it
Karl Marx
The unexamined life is not worth living
Socrates
Seneca on quality of life
For mere living is not good, but living well
The wise man will live as long as he ought, not as long as he can
Jesus went around towns ‘healing every disease and sickness’
Matthew
Utilitarians
Jeremy Bentham
whoever sheds human blood, by humans shall thier blood be shed
Genesis 9:6
Doctrine of double effect
Aquinas
Killing is only permissible as a unintended side affect
You shall not murder
Exodus 20:13
The man who kills himself kills all men
GK Chesterton
Sex is a ‘glorious gift from God’
Towards a Quaker view of sex
Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable
Leviticus 18:22
[Sex] does not seem to us to be sinful be reason alone of the fact that it is homosexual
Towards a Quaker view of sex
Kant on homosexual sex
Use of sexuality which are contrary to natural instinct … humanity is dishonoured
Man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh
Genesis 2:24
What god has joined together let no one separate
Matthew 19:6
Family should be abolished
Plato
Men and woman are equal but should have different roles ideology
Compelementarianism
Egalitarianism
All people, including men and women are equal and should have equal opportunities
Rodger Scruton
Conservitism
On homosexual marriage
Marriage is exclusively heterosexual because it concerns the union of different sexes
Better to marry than to burn with passion
St paul
The body is not meant for sexual immorality
your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit
St Paul
Anyone who divorces his wife … commits adultery against her
Jesus
Whoever looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery
Jesus
Children whos parents broke up in late childhood stat
Have 16% increase in emotional problems
If her husband dies, she is released from the law that binds her to him
Romans 7:2
St Paul
Parable of sheep and goat
Matthew 25
Jesus chases merchants with whip
Matthew 21:12
Wives submit yourselves to your husbands as you do to the lord
Ephesians 5:2
St paul
God made Eve as a helper
Genesis 2:18
For as in Adam all die, in Christ all will be made alive
1 Corinthians 15:22
All scripture breathed by god
2 Timothy 3:16
If anyone comes to me and does not hate their father, mother …. Such a person cannot be my disciple
Luke 4:26
Honour your father and mother
Exodus 20
God tells to murder family if they believe in another god
Deuteronomy 13
everyone is equal before the law
article 7
right to religion and belief
article 18
right to freedom of speech
article 19
anyone who hates a brother or a sister is a murderer
1 John 3:15
two types of sin
blasphamey
mortal sin - deliberatly turning away from god
retribution
make criminal pay for their wrong
deterrent
prevent the crime from happening
reparation
compensate the victim of their crime
London multi-ethnic society stats
over 300 languages spoken in london
40% londeners minority ethnic