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The Great Philosophy Quiz - Let's Plato!

Questão 1 de 30

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How did Platonic theories of the Forms influence Christianity? Select the applicable:

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • Christians go on a pilgrimage where they are imprisoned in a cave but then escape and are blinded by the sun!

  • Dualist principles adopted by Christians for heaven and earth

  • Aquinas, like many Christians, believe in levels of knowledge that humans can't access for instance Thommist Divine Law.

  • Christians have adopted the Prime Mover as their demiurge God.

  • Christians liken the Form of the Good to God.

Explicação

Questão 2 de 30

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Aristotle defined change as the movement from the possible to the actual.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 3 de 30

1

Select the strengths of Aristotle's causation:

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • 4 causes are easily applicable to everything material

  • Russell - "the universe is just there, that's all"

  • Based on empirical evidence

  • Explains change and cosmology effectively with evidence

Explicação

Questão 4 de 30

1

Weaknesses of Plato

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • Can't actually be proved and ignores the senses

  • Doesn't account for subjective perfections of vritues

  • Is there an ideal evil?

  • Aristotle - infinite regression

  • Exclusive and elitist

Explicação

Questão 5 de 30

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How did Aristotelian causation influence Christianity? Select the applicable:

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • The transcendence of the Prime Mover

  • The existence of the Prime Mover (but a Christian one)

  • The cosmological argument

  • The 4 causes, especially the Final cause, influenced Aquinas' work on Natural Law.

Explicação

Questão 6 de 30

1

Weaknesses of Aristotle:

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • Contradictory - everything has a cause apart from the Prime Mover

  • Russell - "the universe is just there, that's all"

  • The 4 causes are only applicable to a few examples

Explicação

Questão 7 de 30

1

Aristotle describe the Prime Mover as
"That which nothing greater can be conceived"

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 8 de 30

1

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.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 9 de 30

1

Strengths of Plato's Forms:

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • Explains virtues as well as material objects

  • Explains innate knowledge

  • Encourages thought and learning

  • Based on empirical evidence

  • Explains imperfection

Explicação

Questão 10 de 30

1

The Form of the Good is the ultimate Form and illuminates the other Forms.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 11 de 30

1

Select all the attributes relating to the Judeo-Christian God

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • Immutable

  • Omniscient

  • Transcendent

  • Omnipotent

  • Evil

  • Eternal and omniprsent

Explicação

Questão 12 de 30

1

Which Platonic theory does the Judeo-christian God liken to?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The King Philosopher

  • The Form of the Good

Explicação

Questão 13 de 30

1

As God's creation is good, God is seen to be morally perfect

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 14 de 30

1

Selecione das listas do Menu para completar o texto.

An example of God as a law-giver is the ( Decalogue, Jesus, Parable of the sheep and the goats )
An example of God as a judge in Matthew is the ( parable of the sheep and the goats, Decalogue, Jesus )
An example of God as source of morality is ( Jesus, Decalogue, Parable of the sheep and the goats )

Explicação

Questão 15 de 30

1

Genesis 1 talks about mans relationship with man and Genesis 2 talks about God creation of the universe through Divine Fiat.

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 16 de 30

1

Preencha o espaço em branco para completar o texto.

Jesus is the of God

Explicação

Questão 17 de 30

1

Preencha o espaço em branco para completar o texto.

The quotation "So God expelled them from the Garden of Eden" is a reference to .

Explicação

Questão 18 de 30

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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?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • Omniscience

  • Omnibenevolence

  • Omnipotence

  • Omnipresence

Explicação

Questão 19 de 30

1

Preencha o espaço em branco para completar o texto.

Theologians argue that God is not responsible for evil in creation because he gave humans .

Explicação

Questão 20 de 30

1

Examples of God's goodness being questionable are;

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The Fall and man's punishments

  • Judging people

  • The Book of Job and the sacrifice of Isaac in Genesis

Explicação

Questão 21 de 30

1

Preencha os espaços em branco para completar o texto.

God is "that than which " according to

Explicação

Questão 22 de 30

1

The ontological argument is analytical and inductive

Selecione uma das opções:

  • VERDADEIRO
  • FALSO

Explicação

Questão 23 de 30

1

1) God is a supremely perfect being
2) Existence is a predicate of perfection
3) God exists
This is the argument by which scholar?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • St Anselm

  • Norman Malcolm

  • Descartes

  • Kant

Explicação

Questão 24 de 30

1

Select the criticisms of the ontological argument

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • Aquinas: It's just too cool for the philosophical world

  • Gaunilo: you cant define something into existence

  • Murdoch: the failure to use reason proves God's transcendence

  • Kant: Existence isn't a predicate and if you reject God then it's not a contradiction

  • Russell: "the universe is just there, that's all"

Explicação

Questão 25 de 30

1

Anselm's first argument:



Arraste e solte para completar o texto.

    God is "that than which nothing
    greater can be conceived"
    God exists in intellecta
    a being is greater if
    it exists in re too
    God is the greatest
    so he exists in intellecta
    and in re: God exists!

Explicação

Questão 26 de 30

1

Aquinas' 3 ways are..
1st way:
2nd way:
3rd way:

Arraste e solte para completar o texto.

    motion
    cause
    contingency
    Teleological

Explicação

Questão 27 de 30

1

Bertrand Russell's counter point in the 1947 Russell vs Copleston debate on BBC radio was...

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • God is the only sufficient reason for the universe

  • Fallacy of Composition

  • The universe is beyond human understanding

Explicação

Questão 28 de 30

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Which option is the best explanation for the Kalam cosmological argument?

Selecione uma das seguintes:

  • The universe has a cause (PSR) and this is grounded in a necessary being

  • 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.

  • Everything with a beginning has a cause; this cause we call God.

Explicação

Questão 29 de 30

1

Aquinas' 1st way: motion


Arraste e solte para completar o texto.

    Everything is moving
    everything has a cause
    everything changes
    there cant be infinite regression
    must have been a first mover
    must have been a first cause
    must have been a necessary being

Explicação

Questão 30 de 30

1

Select the criticisms for the cosmological argument

Selecione uma ou mais das seguintes:

  • Why is it the Christian God? (Hume)

  • Fallacy of Composition (Hume)

  • Based on evidence (McVities)

  • The universe is just there, that's all (Russell)

Explicação

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