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| show many of lifes problems can be illuminated by philosophy, introduce to logic and philo tooks, help students think more clearly about problems and philosophers, introduce readers to examples of conceptual analysis, introduce readers to worldview thinking |
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| a conceptual framework, pattern, or arrangement of a persons beliefs, a conceptual scheme that contains our fundamental beliefs, it is the means by which we interpret and judge reality |
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| a good worldview has 3 components |
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comprehensive, systematic, supposedly true views on life and the world |
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| 5 clusters of beliefs in a worldview |
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GOD
METAPHYSICS
EPISTEMOLOGY
ETHICS
HUMAN NATURE
God and MEEH |
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| the origin and composition of the world |
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| theory of knowledge, can we trust our senses? |
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| important qualification to worldview |
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| not everyone within the same worldview will agree on every issue |
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| conclusion about worldviews |
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| we all have worldviews, and they function as interpretive conceptual schemes to explain why we see the world as we do, why we think and act as we do |
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| is religious faith isolated compartment in a persons life? |
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| no we cannot separate it, it is a dimension of life that influences everything we believe |
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| henry zylstra on religion and the human condition |
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| whatever a persons ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else a person does or believes. to be human further is to be religious, no man is religiously neutral |
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| before we can know anything, we must believe something. whenever we think, we take some things for granted. all human beliefs must rest upon other beliefs that we presupose or accept without support from arguments or evidence |
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| presuppositions can determine.... |
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| the method and goal of theoretical thought |
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| habitual way of thinking, a worldview is a collection of these. |
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| they filter information that might not meet expectations connected with the paradigm. paradigm admit data that fir the paradigm and filter our data that conflicts with the paradigm |
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| NON THEORETICAL FACTORS THAT affect judgements |
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| the heart. theoretical thinking is never as pure or autonomous as many would like to think |
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| worldviews should be evaluated according to tests: |
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REIP
reason experience inner experience, and practice |
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| modern assault on conceptual systems |
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| specialization within the field of philosophy |
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| second challenge to conceptual systems |
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| peeps are confused and their pieces dont fit together |
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law of non contradiction
A which can stand for anything cannot both be B and non -B at the same time. something cannot be true and false at the same time in the same sense. |
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| tests should be relevant to what we know about the world and ourselves- it must be consistent with human experience |
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| what we know about ourselves, i am a being who hopes.... |
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| can they live consistently in harmony with the system they profess? or are they forced to live according to beliefs borrowed from a competing system |
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| birth and death of leucippus |
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| birth and death of democritus |
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| birth and death of epicurus |
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| epicurus founds his university, the garden, in athens |
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| birth and death of t. lucretius carus |
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| contemporary naturalism is... |
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| a sophisticated restatement of traditional naturalism |
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| central claim of metaphysical naturalism is.. |
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| that nothing exists outside the material, mechanistic(that is, nonpurposeful) natural order |
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| everything that exists can be reduced to physical or material entities |
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| CARL SAGAN NATURALIST QUOTE |
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| universe is all that there is, ever was, or will ever be |
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| nature only exists by nature... |
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| the sum total of what could in principle be observed by human beings or be stuied by methods analogous to those used in the natural sciences. supernatural god does not exist |
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| nature is a materialistic system |
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| basic componenets of existing things are material entities. they do not deny memories or thoughts or intentions, but they are either material things or reducible in terms of material things or caused by material things |
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| nature is self explanatory system |
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| anything that happens within the natural order must be explainable in terms of other elements of the natural order. it is never necessary to seek the explanation of any event within nature in something beyond the natural order |
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| nature is characterized by total uniformity |
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| this is apparent in the regularity of the natural order, something that scientists attempt to capture in the natural laws they formulate |
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| nature is a deterministic system |
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| determinism is the belief that every event is made physically necessary by one or more antecedent causes. there is no room for any theory of agency whereby god or humans acting apart from any totally determining causes can function as causes in the natural order |
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| corliss lamont and bertrand russell |
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| most philosophers were described as naturalists that came before |
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| aristotle plato socrates, becuase they centered their attention on nature rather than on human problems |
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| second sense of naturalism...characterized by early greek thinkers |
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| natural world or physical universe is the only reality that exists |
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| two names noted with greek atonism |
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| leucippus 490-439 and democritus 460-360 |
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| most accomplished of the early naturalists, two principles explain everything...atoms empy space he proposed that basic building blocks of the universe are indivisble tiny material entities called atom |
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| the search for a worldview that would deliver humans from their fear of death and the Gods- as long as we are conscious we are not dead |
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| his system denied purpose in the world, it was not completely mechanical, GREEK GODS |
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| question that has no asnwer |
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1. why is there something rather than nothing?
why the atoms move?
why do atoms swerve? |
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| 96-55 BC- presented epicurian ideas but didnt write new things- atonism |
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| ancient atomists were empiricists, which means all knowledge depends on sensation. |
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| distinguishes between the world as humans percieve it and the way it is, anything we percieve is an illusion, |
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| human being is a collection of indistinguishable material, propertyless atoms. the human mind is as material as any physical organ. difference between human mind and a rock is complexity |
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| achiles tendon of naturalism |
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| unless human reasoning is valid, no arguments by any metaphysical naturalist directed against christian theism or offered in support of naturalism can be sound. logical connection between a belief and the ground of that belief. |
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| more recent attack on metaphysical naturalism |
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| richard taylor.... they must assume that our human cognitive faculties are a product of chance, purposeless forces, but if this is so, naturalist apear inconsistent whn they place so much trust in these faculties. |
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| conclusion about naturalism |
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| how mindless forces give rise to minds, knowledge sound reasoning, and moral principles that report how muman beings ought to behave. the only way a person can provide rational grounds for believing in natrualism is to ceas being a naturalist |
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| aquinas tried to assimilate aristotelian thought into |
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| christianity, he is thought of as failing at this, uses his categories to influence christian theology |
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| doctrine is created and develops, you cannot do theology without |
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| philosophy, it is impossible |
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| plato says that philosophy begins with |
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awe- that comes from not yet knowing why
asking questions- not yet knowing why |
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what is the nature of god?
why be moral?
what does it mean to be human? |
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| art and sciences category |
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| what makes something art? is there anything objective in art? |
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| humane philosophical questions |
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| what if anything do parents and childen morally owe one another? |
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| birth of neo evangelicalism |
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| things contributing to neoevangelicalism |
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1. birth of fuller seminary
2. christinaity today magazine
3. billy graham association |
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| charles malik quote on salvation |
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| saving the soul , and then saving the mind, greatest danger is anti-intellectualism |
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| what hath athens to do with jerusalem? |
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| possible christian arguments... |
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col 2:8
acts- gameliel
feidiesm- just believe |
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| what three words describe wilkens perspective on what should characterize and distinguish the christian life? |
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| Ritualistic, moral, and intellectual |
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| becoming a christian scholar is more a matter of |
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| intention and desire, of bearing witness to christ in the contemporary worlds of study |
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| To worship God and live faithfully are necessary conditions if you are to survive in college. |
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| evangelicals who take ideas seriously can |
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| combat the tendencies to be fanatics or paranoid |
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| to succeed, evangelicals will have to |
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| put their defensiveness to one side, learn to practice their faith as they see best while treating people of other faiths, and indeed, people of no faith, with respect. |
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