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How did Platonic theories of the Forms influence Christianity? Select the applicable:
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Christians go on a pilgrimage where they are imprisoned in a cave but then escape and are blinded by the sun!
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Dualist principles adopted by Christians for heaven and earth
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Aquinas, like many Christians, believe in levels of knowledge that humans can't access for instance Thommist Divine Law.
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Christians have adopted the Prime Mover as their demiurge God.
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Christians liken the Form of the Good to God.
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Aristotle defined change as the movement from the possible to the actual.
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- True
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Select the strengths of Aristotle's causation:
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4 causes are easily applicable to everything material
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Russell - "the universe is just there, that's all"
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Based on empirical evidence
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Explains change and cosmology effectively with evidence
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Weaknesses of Plato
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Can't actually be proved and ignores the senses
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Doesn't account for subjective perfections of vritues
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Is there an ideal evil?
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Aristotle - infinite regression
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Exclusive and elitist
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How did Aristotelian causation influence Christianity? Select the applicable:
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The transcendence of the Prime Mover
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The existence of the Prime Mover (but a Christian one)
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The cosmological argument
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The 4 causes, especially the Final cause, influenced Aquinas' work on Natural Law.
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Weaknesses of Aristotle:
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Contradictory - everything has a cause apart from the Prime Mover
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Russell - "the universe is just there, that's all"
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The 4 causes are only applicable to a few examples
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Aristotle describe the Prime Mover as
"That which nothing greater can be conceived"
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- True
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Plato believed that the Realm of the Forms could only be accessed by the King Philosopher - a philosopher with a great power to reason and understand.
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- True
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Strengths of Plato's Forms:
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Explains virtues as well as material objects
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Explains innate knowledge
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Encourages thought and learning
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Based on empirical evidence
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Explains imperfection
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The Form of the Good is the ultimate Form and illuminates the other Forms.
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- True
- False
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Select all the attributes relating to the Judeo-Christian God
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Immutable
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Omniscient
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Transcendent
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Omnipotent
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Evil
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Eternal and omniprsent
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Which Platonic theory does the Judeo-christian God liken to?
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The King Philosopher
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The Form of the Good
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As God's creation is good, God is seen to be morally perfect
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- True
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An example of God as a law-giver is the [blank_start]Decalogue[blank_end]
An example of God as a judge in Matthew is the [blank_start]parable of the sheep and the goats[blank_end]
An example of God as source of morality is [blank_start]Jesus[blank_end]
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Decalogue
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Jesus
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Parable of the sheep and the goats
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parable of the sheep and the goats
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Decalogue
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Jesus
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Jesus
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Decalogue
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Parable of the sheep and the goats
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Genesis 1 talks about mans relationship with man and Genesis 2 talks about God creation of the universe through Divine Fiat.
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- True
- False
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Jesus is the [blank_start]incarnation[blank_end] of God
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incarnation
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The quotation "So God expelled them from the Garden of Eden" is a reference to [blank_start]the Fall[blank_end].
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the Fall
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The quote "Have you commanded the morning since your days began and cause the dawn to know its place?" (Job 38:12) refers to what attribute of God?
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Omniscience
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Omnibenevolence
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Omnipotence
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Omnipresence
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Theologians argue that God is not responsible for evil in creation because he gave humans [blank_start]free will[blank_end].
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free will
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Examples of God's goodness being questionable are;
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The Fall and man's punishments
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Judging people
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The Book of Job and the sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis
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God is "that than which [blank_start]nothing greater can be conceived[blank_end]" according to [blank_start]Anselm[blank_end]
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nothing greater can be conceived
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Anselm
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The ontological argument is analytical and inductive
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- True
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1) God is a supremely perfect being
2) Existence is a predicate of perfection
3) God exists
This is the argument by which scholar?
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St Anselm
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Norman Malcolm
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Descartes
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Kant
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Select the criticisms of the ontological argument
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Aquinas: It's just too cool for the philosophical world
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Gaunilo: you cant define something into existence
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Murdoch: the failure to use reason proves God's transcendence
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Kant: Existence isn't a predicate and if you reject God then it's not a contradiction
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Russell: "the universe is just there, that's all"
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Anselm's first argument:
[blank_start]God is "that than which nothing[blank_end] [blank_start]greater can be conceived"[blank_end]
[blank_start]God exists in intellecta[blank_end]
[blank_start]a being is greater if[blank_end] [blank_start]it exists in re too[blank_end]
[blank_start]God is the greatest[blank_end] [blank_start]so he exists in intellecta[blank_end] [blank_start]and in re: God exists![blank_end]
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God is "that than which nothing
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greater can be conceived"
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God exists in intellecta
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a being is greater if
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it exists in re too
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God is the greatest
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so he exists in intellecta
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and in re: God exists!
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Aquinas' 3 ways are..
1st way: [blank_start]motion[blank_end]
2nd way: [blank_start]cause[blank_end]
3rd way: [blank_start]contingency[blank_end]
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motion
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cause
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contingency
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Teleological
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Bertrand Russell's counter point in the 1947 Russell vs Copleston debate on BBC radio was...
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God is the only sufficient reason for the universe
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Fallacy of Composition
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The universe is beyond human understanding
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Which option is the best explanation for the Kalam cosmological argument?
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The universe has a cause (PSR) and this is grounded in a necessary being
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Everything changes thus there was once a time when there was nothing; there has to be a necessary being to bring the contingent beings into existence.
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Everything with a beginning has a cause; this cause we call God.
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Aquinas' 1st way: motion
[blank_start]Everything is moving[blank_end]
[blank_start]there cant be infinite regression[blank_end]
[blank_start]must have been a first mover[blank_end]
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Everything is moving
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everything has a cause
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everything changes
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there cant be infinite regression
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must have been a first mover
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must have been a first cause
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must have been a necessary being
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Select the criticisms for the cosmological argument
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Why is it the Christian God? (Hume)
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Fallacy of Composition (Hume)
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Based on evidence (McVities)
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The universe is just there, that's all (Russell)
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