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STUDY GUIDE: Mid Term
Multiple Choice & True/False Questions:
Introduction:
* 3 intellectual skills that philosophy help cultivate
* Examining assumptions and worldviews
* Wisdom
* Plato’s Cave
Ancient Philosophers/the Beginning
* Why philosophy began in Greek culture;
* The nature/characteristics of the Most Real
* Thales: one beyond all
* Heraclitus’ world of change (Becoming)
* Empedocles’ “love” and “hate” principles
* Anaxagoras’ Nous/Mind
* Sophists: secularists, rhetoric, intellectual prostitutes, egoists, relativists, ethical relativists
Socrates
* Socrates’ lesson #1
* “The unexamined life is not worth livi8ng”
* Care for the soul
* Self-knowledge is necessary for the good life
* Knowledge is virtue; ignorance is vice
* How to develop excellence in the soul
* Consistency of Socrates’ thought and his life
Nietzsche
* The importance of “God is Dead”
* Denial of objective truth
* Denial of ethical truth
* Nihilism: the meaning of life
* Consistency of Nietzsche’s thought and his life
The Arguments for God’s Existence
* Theist, atheist, and agnostic
* The two ultimate worldviews
* “Does the universe explain itself?”
* Cosmological argument
* Design argument
* Moral argument; argument from desire
* Argument from religious experience
* Pascal’s Wager
* Do the arguments for God’s existence provide conclusive proof?
* The arguments against God’s existence: the question of which God, the burden of proof, irrationality or non-rationality of faith, wishful thinking, why does God hide?, fate of the unlearned
The Problem of Evil
* The logical problem of evil
* Is God the cause of evil?
* Where does evil come from?
* Why does God allow evil?
* Is this the best God could do?
* Can the problem of evil be answered completely?
* Good God...