Test #1- Content of Philosophy

Question 1

Epistemology into 3 parts:

1. Empiricism- we can only know what can be ?
2. Rationalism- the mind must ? what the senses tell us.
3. Revelation- God has ? Himself or exposed truth through inspired people or ah inspired Book.

Answer 1

Epistemology into 3 parts:

1. Empiricism- we can only know what can be experienced.
2. Rationalism- the mind must interpret what the senses tell us.
3. Revelation- God has revealed Himself or exposed truth through inspired people or ah inspired Book.

Question 2

Epistemology:

Deals with (1) ? and (2) ?

Answer 2

Epistemology:

Deals with (1) what can we know and (2) how do we know?

Question 3

Epistemology:

Christian- Knowledge is a product of the mind and a response to both the ? and ? revelation of God.

Answer 3

Epistemology:

Christian- Knowledge is a product of the mind and a response to both the general and special revelation of God.

Question 4

Metaphysics definition:

A. Deals with What is ?
B. Deals with God
I. Naturalist view- (no God). No object has ? significance. ? can explain it all.
II. Supernaturalist- (there is a God). A philosophical term that describes people who affirm the existence of ? the natural and the supernatural.

Answer 4

Metaphysics definition:

A. Deals with What is real
B. Deals with God
I. Naturalist view- (no God). No object has supernatural significance. Science can explain it all.
II. Supernaturalist- (there is a God). A philosophical term that describes people who affirm the existence of both the natural and the supernatural.

Question 5

Metaphysics Christian Thought:

God ? it all.

Answer 5

Metaphysics Christian Thought:

God created it all.

Question 6

Logic Definition:

The study of correct ?

Answer 6

Logic Definition:

The study of correct reasoning.

Question 7

Logic 2 Parts:

1. ?- general to specific.
2. ?- specific to general. The truth of individualized premises is established in order that a generalization may be made. This reasoning can be wrong.

Answer 7

Logic 2 Parts:

1. Deductive- general to specific.
2. Inductive- specific to general. The truth of individualized premises is established in order that a generalization may be made. This reasoning can be wrong.

Question 8

Logic Christian Thought:

All reasoning is based on God’s ? Word.

Answer 8

Logic Christian Thought:

All reasoning is based on God’s unchanging Word.

Question 9

Aesthetics- What is beauty?

1. Is beauty in the eye of the ? or is it more objective?

Answer 9

Aesthetics- What is beauty?

1. Is beauty in the eye of the beholder or is it more objective?

Question 10

Aesthetics- What is beauty?

2. Why do some people find art ? while other don’t?
   Answer: your ? (what you have gone through) and ? (what you have brought out of it)

Answer 10

Aesthetics- What is beauty?

2. Why do some people find art moving while other don’t?
   Answer: your background (what you have gone through) and baggage (what you have brought out of it)

Question 11

Aesthetics- What is beauty?

3. Christian Thought- Art must reflect God’s truth and His ?

Answer 11

Aesthetics- What is beauty?

3. Christian Thought- Art must reflect God’s truth and His order.

Question 12

Ethics- What is right and ? and how it is determined?

Answer 12

Ethics- What is right and good and how it is determined?

Question 13

Ethics

1. Are some actions ? right and other actions always ?

Answer 13

Ethics

1. Are some actions always right and other actions always wrong?

Question 14

Ethics

2. Are some actions right because they ? right or because they ? right?

Answer 14

Ethics

2. Are some actions right because they are right or because they feel right?

Question 15

Ethics

3. Christian Thought- All ? can be measured against the Word of God. There is a ?.

Answer 15

Ethics

3. Christian Thought- All ethics can be measured against the Word of God. There is a standard.