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Flashcards by Izzy Noone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Izzy Noone
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| Question | Answer |
| Omniscience | Knowing everything. |
| Omnipresence | Being everywhere in the universe simultaneously. |
| Omnipotence | Having the power to do anything at all. |
| Omnibenevolence | Being unlimited in moral goodness. |
| Panentheism | The belief that God interpenetrates every part of nature and extends infinitely beyond it |
| Pantheism | The belief that God and the universe are one and the same being, making God much more limited |
| Sempiternal | Existing within time, but without beginning or end. |
| Process theology | A theology which begins with the assumption that God is limited. |
| The Euthyphro Dilemma | “Is something good because God commands it, or does God command that thing because it is good?” |
| Boethius | Author of The Consolations of Philosophy which takes the form of an imagined conversation between himself and Philosophy, personified as a woman. |
| Lady Philosophy | The personification of philosophy in Boethius’ book. |
| St Augustine (354- 430 CE) | An eternalist who spotted a deep problem with eternalism. |
| Anselm (1033-1109) | An eternalist who proposed a ‘four dimensionalist’ view of Boethius’ theory of time. |
| Anthony Kenny | 20th century philosopher who claims Boethius’ eternalism is incoherent. |
| St Augustine (354-430 CE) | Lived in the generation before Boethius, and was also an eternalist, but he noticed a deep problem with it. |
| Pierre-Simon Laplace (1729-1847) | Held that the world was deterministic because Newtonian physics said the world was entirely explicable in terms of causes, effects and mathematics. |
| Quantum Mechanics | A rewriting of particle physics that built genuine indeterminacy into the world. |
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