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Philosophy of Religion: Key Terms (unfinished deck)
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- 1Divine attributes (name 6)omnipotence, benevolence, omniscience, everlasting, eternal, immutability
- 2Omnipotence (include 2 varients)Infinitely powerful; (1) can do anything that He wills, or (2) can do anything that is logically possible
- 3OmniscienceKnowing all things, having no beliefs that are false
- 4BenevolenceSupreme goodness, can do nothing which is morally bad & is the absolute standard for judging what is good
- 5EternalTimeless, existing outside of time itself and viewing all events as simultaneously present in one view
- 6EverlastingExisting within time and at all times, there is no time in which He does not exist
- 7ImmutabilityNot subject to change
- 8State the paradox of the stoneIs God able to create a stone which he cannot lift?
- 9State the Euthyphro questionIs what is pious loved by the Gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the Gods?
- 10Free will (according to Hume)The ability to act differently in the exact same situation
- 11EvilMorally wrong, unjust or unfair
- 12Moral evilEvil that occurs as a direct result of the freely chosen actions of human beings
- 13Natural evilEvil that occurs as a result of the malfunctioning operations of the natural world
- 14Logical problem of evil: inconsistent triad (J L Mackie - 3 things)God is omnipotent, god is benevolent, evil exists in the world
- 15Evidential problem of evil: 3 factors of evil to considerIntensity, distribution & duration
- 16Mackie's logical dichotomyThe free will defence makes a logical leap from human freedom to the inevitability of evil
- 17Why did God not create perfect humans from the outset?It would not have been possible (1); it would not have been desirable (2)
- 185 responses to Hick's soul making theodicyNot all evil is soul making, extent of evil, distribution of evil, pointless pilgrimage, natural evil
- 19Logical positivism (Ayer)A claim is meaningful if we are able to imagine what empirical evidence would prove it true
- 20Flew's falsification principleA claim is meaningful if we are able to imagine what empirical evidence would prove it false
- 21Bliks, according to HareUnfalsifiable convictions, ie convictions unaffected by empirical evidence to the contrary, which affect a person's attitudes and/or behaviours
- 22Eschatologically verifiableVerifiable after death
- 23CognitiveAttempting to convey facts; truth evaluable
- 24Language game (Wittgenstein)Ways of talking, some cognitive and some non-cognitive
- 25Functions of religious language according to Wittgenstein (name 3)(1) sustaining and shaping the religious form of life, (2) expressing attitudes and commitments, (3) prescribing ways of living
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