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Philosophy of Religion [image] |
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| Investigation of the origin, essence, and content of religion and critique of it's values and truths. |
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| A being in which nothing greater can be created or conceived. |
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| Problems of conflicting beliefs of a theist. |
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| Problems of various perfections of God. |
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| Belief in one, active God. |
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| Belief that there is no God. |
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| God is equivalent to the world and the universe. |
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| Belief in one, inactive God. |
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| Belief in more than one Gods. |
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| The argument of design, usually associated with analogies. (ex. Watchmaker analogy) |
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| End; that for which the sake of which something is done. |
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A = X,Y,Z
B = X,Y
Therefore; B = Z |
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| All knowledge of reality is based on senses. (Ex. Hume) |
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| Some knowledge of reality is extra-sensory. (Ex. Descarte) |
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| Arguments based on experience or senses. |
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| Arguments independent of experience or senses. |
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| The difficulty of reconciling the existence of suffering in the world with the existence of God. |
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| Evil resulting from humans. |
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| Evil resulting from natural causes. |
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| Arguments against the Problem of Evil. |
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Free Will
Spiritual Growth
Cannot understand God
Evil is absence of good.
Appropriate punishment. |
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| We cannot understand God. |
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| Argument for the existence of a First Cause. |
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| A branch of theology based on reason and ordinary experience; you can determine the existence of God based upon nature. |
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| Everything is the result of something. (Domino Effect) |
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| Start with unobservable fact, end with an unobservable conclusion. |
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