PHIL-1301 Unit #2 Study Deck!

_____ said that "existence precedes essence."

_____ is the idea that everything is causally destined, sidestepping choice.

_____ is the conclusion that there is no god, by means of either belief or disbelief.

_____ is the refusal to either believe or disbelieve in god, due to lack of knowledge.

_____ is the worldview that sees no difference between the divine and the universe.

_____ attributes to God certain human qualities.

_____ is a quality given to God showing his knowledge of all (appropriate) things.

According to logical positivism, for statements to be meaningful they must be _____.

According to Plato, the _____ causes the essence of a thing.

According to ______ ______, "whatever excites and stimulates our interest is real."

Phenomenologist ______ says "isness" is that which remains when all properties are set aside.

Aristotle's realism combines matter with form to compose _____

Immanuel Kant called the Ontological Argument a _____ due to its lack of clarity.

Aquinas' argument from design for God's existence is also called the _____ Argument.

The stance that things are determined but men are also responsible for their actions is _____.

_____ Idealism asserts that the conscious mind and its perceptions are the only reality.

Aristotle's idea that everything in the universe has its own unique purpose is _____.

Anselm's argument assumes as a premise what it attempts to prove, God's _____.

_____ argument depends on the premise that an infinite chain of movers cannot exist.

(T or F) Philosophers who raise the evidential problem of evil claim there is a contradiction between the existence of evil and an all-good, all powerful God.

For Augustine, evil is the _____ of good.

(T or F) An atheist refuses to make a commitment regarding belief in God.

_____ eliminates choice, thereby eliminating responsibility.

(T or F) Existentialism stresses universals and objectivity over personals and subjectivity.

(T or F) According to William James, every decision is determined by biological forces.

Plato believed in the _____ of the soul.

(T or F) In the "wager" and James' pragmatism, not believing in God has no negative effects.

(T or F) The transcendence of God accounts for God's uniqueness from creation.

According to Plato, we live in the world of _____.

Anselm argued God's _____ "that than which none greater can be conceived."

According to Plato, knowledge is a _____ of the Forms

Traditionally, the West views God as being completely _____ on creation.

(T or F) Plato's "cave" allegory shows how unreal the world of being (the forms) is.

Hume was a vocal critic of the Teleological Argument due to an imperfect universe.

(T or F) Efficient causation addresses the question "for what end is it made?"

AJ Ayer argued we should use the _____ _____ to determine if a statement has meaning.

According to Plato, the world of _____, not the visible world of actual things is most _____.

According to Aristotle, we never find _____ without _____ or form without matter in nature.

_____ cause determines what a thing is, asking the question "what is it?"

According to Hard Determinism, everything including your will is causally _____.

According to Sartre, "we are _____ to be free."

God's evident approachability and know-ability is shown in God's _____.

Aquinas' Cosmological Argument begins with his Proof from _____, seeing the transformation from potentiality into actuality.

In the Teleological Argument, _____ must direct those things that have no intelligence themselves.

Kant proposed that it is _____ necessary to assume to existence of God.

William James argued that we lose the vital _____ if we choose to disbelieve in God.

The book of Job serves as a _____ for theists, justifying the belief in God.

Augustine argued that _____ is the privation of goodness, not the opposite of good.