Philosophy of Religion: Key Terms (unfinished deck)

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Flashcards on Philosophy of Religion: Key Terms, created by Lilli Flahh on 16/05/2017.
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Divine attributes (name 6) omnipotence, benevolence, omniscience, everlasting, eternal, immutability
Omnipotence (include 2 varients) Infinitely powerful; (1) can do anything that He wills, or (2) can do anything that is logically possible
Omniscience Knowing all things, having no beliefs that are false
Benevolence Supreme goodness, can do nothing which is morally bad & is the absolute standard for judging what is good
Eternal Timeless, existing outside of time itself and viewing all events as simultaneously present in one view
Everlasting Existing within time and at all times, there is no time in which He does not exist
Immutability Not subject to change
State the paradox of the stone Is God able to create a stone which he cannot lift?
State the Euthyphro question Is what is pious loved by the Gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the Gods?
Free will (according to Hume) The ability to act differently in the exact same situation
Evil Morally wrong, unjust or unfair
Moral evil Evil that occurs as a direct result of the freely chosen actions of human beings
Natural evil Evil that occurs as a result of the malfunctioning operations of the natural world
Logical problem of evil: inconsistent triad (J L Mackie - 3 things) God is omnipotent, god is benevolent, evil exists in the world
Evidential problem of evil: 3 factors of evil to consider Intensity, distribution & duration
Mackie's logical dichotomy The free will defence makes a logical leap from human freedom to the inevitability of evil
Why did God not create perfect humans from the outset? It would not have been possible (1); it would not have been desirable (2)
5 responses to Hick's soul making theodicy Not all evil is soul making, extent of evil, distribution of evil, pointless pilgrimage, natural evil
Logical positivism (Ayer) A claim is meaningful if we are able to imagine what empirical evidence would prove it true
Flew's falsification principle A claim is meaningful if we are able to imagine what empirical evidence would prove it false
Bliks, according to Hare Unfalsifiable convictions, ie convictions unaffected by empirical evidence to the contrary, which affect a person's attitudes and/or behaviours
Eschatologically verifiable Verifiable after death
Cognitive Attempting to convey facts; truth evaluable
Language game (Wittgenstein) Ways of talking, some cognitive and some non-cognitive
Functions 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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