Scholars

Question 1

Existence of God: Analogical

Answer 1

William Paley

Question 2

Existence of God: Analogical (criticisms)

Answer 2

David Hume

Question 3

Existence of God: Ontological

Answer 3

Anselm

Question 4

Existence of God: Ontological (criticisms)

Answer 4

Gaunilo and Kant

Question 5

Existence of God: Cosmological

Answer 5

St Thomas Aquinas

Question 6

Existence of God: Cosmological (criticisms)

Answer 6

David Hume and Bertrand Russel

Question 7

Problem of Evil: logical problem

Answer 7

J.L.Mackie

Question 8

Problem of Evil: evidential problem

Answer 8

William Rowe

Question 9

Problem of Evil: Free Will Defense

Answer 9

St Augustine of Hippo

Question 10

Problem of Evil: Soul Making Theodicy

Answer 10

John Hick

Question 11

Problem of Evil: Process Theodicy

Answer 11

David Griffin

Question 12

Nature of the soul: Dualism

Answer 12

Rene Descartes and Plato

Question 13

Nature of the soul: Monism

Answer 13

David Hume and Aristotle

Question 14

Nature of the soul: ‘Ghost in the Machine’

Answer 14

Gilbert Ryle

Question 15

Religious experience: Visions

Answer 15

St Augustine of Hippo

Question 16

Religious experience: Numinous

Answer 16

Rudolf Otto

Question 17

Religious experience: Mystical Experience

Answer 17

William James

Question 18

Religious experience: Credulity and Testimony

Answer 18

Richard Swinburne

Question 19

Miracles: Realist

Answer 19

St Thomas Aquinas and David Hume

Question 20

Miracles: Anti-realist

Answer 20

R.F Holland and Maurice Wiles

Question 21

Meta-Ethics: Divine Command Theory

Answer 21

John Calvin

Question 22

Meta-Ethics: Utilitarianism

Answer 22

Jeremy Bentham

Question 23

Meta-Ethics: Intuitionism

Answer 23

G.E Moore

Question 24

Normative Ethics: Virtue Ethics

Answer 24

Aristotle

Question 25

Normative Ethics: Natural Moral Law

Answer 25

St Thomas Aquinas

Question 26

Normative Ethics: Proportionalism (NML)

Answer 26

Bernard Hoose

Question 27

Normative Ethics: Situation Ethics

Answer 27

Joseph Fletcher

Question 28

Conscience: Religious

Answer 28

St Thomas Aquinas and Joseph Butler (+ St Augustine and John Henry Newman)

Question 29

Conscience: Secular

Answer 29

Sigmund Freud and Erich Fromm (+ Jean Piaget)

Question 30

Free Will: Libertarianism (religious)

Answer 30

St Augustine of Hippo

Question 31

Free Will: Libertarianism (secular)

Answer 31

Jean-Paul Sartre

Question 32

Free Will: Hard Determinism (religious)

Answer 32

John Calvin

Question 33

Free Will: Hard Determinism (secular)

Answer 33

Isaac Newton (scientific) and B.F Skinner (behaviourist)

Question 34

Free Will: Compatibilism (religious)

Answer 34

Plato

Question 35

Free Will: Compatibilism (secular)

Answer 35

David Hume

Question 36

William Paley’s text:

Answer 36

Natural Theology

Question 37

David Hume’s text:

Answer 37

Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Question 38

St Thomas Aquinas’ text:

Answer 38

Summa Theologica

Question 39

St Augustine’s text:

Answer 39

Confessions

Question 40

Rene Descartes’ text:

Answer 40

Meditations on First Philosophy

Question 41

Rudolph Otto’s text:

Answer 41

The Idea of the Holy

Question 42

William James’ text:

Answer 42

The varieties of religious experience

Question 43

Maurice Wiles’ text:

Answer 43

God’s Action in the World

Question 44

John Calvin’s text:

Answer 44

Institutes of the Christian Religion

Question 45

Jeremy Bentham’s text:

Answer 45

An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation

Question 46

G.E Moore’s text:

Answer 46

Principia Ethica

Question 47

Aristotle’s text:

Answer 47

Nicomachean Ethics

Question 48

Joseph Fletcher’s text:

Answer 48

Situation Ethics: The New Morality

Question 49

Immanuel Kant’s text:

Answer 49

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Question 50

Sigmund Freud’s text:

Answer 50

Civilization and It’s Discontents

Question 51

Jean-Paul Sartre’s text:

Answer 51

Existentialism and Humanism