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God
OHDFSAP
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 1
03/13/2013

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God definition
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Omniscience, omnibenevolence, omnipotence
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Could never exist
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Imposible thing
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Must exist
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Necessary thing
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Could exist
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Contingent thing
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Anselm's destinction in existence
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Impossible thing is a round square
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Reduction to absurdity, that unicorns could exist in another reality
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Reductio ad absurdum
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Anselm's defintion of God
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Greatest possible being
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Anselm's ontological argument
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God exists in the understanding, is greatest by definition, so must exist
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Anselm's key idea
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God is a necessary being
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Guanilo's objection to anselm
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perfect island
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Two kinds of evil
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moral and natural
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Problem with evil
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accepting two definitions of god denies the third
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rebuke: evil is necessary for the existence of moral virtues
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johnson : not all evil is necessary
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rebuke: free will
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johnson : God is still a bystander
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rebuke: God has a "higher morality" we can't understand
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Johnson: theists can no longer say that God is "good"
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Theodicy
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attempt to justify god in allowing evil
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hick rejects two solutions of theodicy
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deny the existence of evil or to deny that God is infinite
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Hicks claims
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Free will and Soul Making
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Free will reply
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allows wrong doing
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soul making
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journey towards higher state
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puzzle in gods omniscence and human freedom
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if god is all knowing are we supposed to be wrong?
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Cliffords analogy
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shipowner
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cliffords idea
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ethics of belief
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truth and falsity is nor the issue
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clifford
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belief cannot be severed from action
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clifford
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beliefs arent a private matter
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clifford
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cliffords problem with morality of belief
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we don't think logically
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james is about
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making the genuine option
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genuine option is
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momentous, forced and living
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james's thesis
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when logic fails genuine option must consider non-rational
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two goals of critical reasoning
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avoid error and believe the truth
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james vs clifford
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clifford is over logical james is about choice
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