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31 Cards in this Set
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C.L Lewis Moral argument
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All persons have a moral law. Universal moral law implies a law giver.
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moral argument
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1. All have a moral sense (conscience)
2. implies a single law giver 3. A law giver (God) exist |
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Anselm
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1. archbishop of Canterbury In 1066
2. abbot of a monestary |
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Anselm argues so that.....
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he may understand
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sin and ignorance
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Make you far from God
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ignorance
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Is overcome by faith
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God is
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That than which nothing greater can be thought
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Anselm argues
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1. God is that than which nothing greater can be thought
2. To exist in reality and understanding is greater than to exist in the understanding alone |
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Two ways of existence
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1. In understanding alone
2. In reality and understanding |
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gaunilo on anselm
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says that this theory could apply to anything. Ex. Lost island
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Anselm response to guanilo
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Nothing could be more real than God so anselms theory can't be applied to the physical
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a greater than God can be conceived
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If he exist in the mind alone
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fool
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reaches a contradiction because even he can agree that God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived. but admit this to admit that a God must exist in reality, because if he didn't exist he wouldn't fit the definition.
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modal version
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1. Necessary being exist in all possible world's
2. possible beings exist in some possible world's 3. God is possible being 4. 2&3=God exist in some possible world 5. 1&4= God exist in all possible world's 6. This world is a possible world 7. God exist in this actual world |
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teleological argument
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endirected behavior is a telos= purpose
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cosmological arguements
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reason for universe or comos
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effect is experience that a thing exist
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cause necessary that God exist
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inductive
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future will be like the past (particular)
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deductive
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generally universal, cause and effect
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abductive
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from particular to universal
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anselm apriori
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logical and rational (begins with definition)
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aquínas (aposteriori)
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experience based
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cosmological arguement issues
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a real effect, the effect then has a real cause, there must then be a real creator
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kant
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You must know what a creator is before you can think of cosmological proof
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proof for God's existence
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is only offered from someone who already believes he exist
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aquínas 1st way
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If things are in motion, there must have been a first unmoved mover to begin there movement
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aquínas 2nd way
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efficient causality is present therefore, there must be a first efficient cause
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aquínas 3rd way
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possible beings are present, therefore there must be a first necessary being
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aquínas 4th way
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gradation in being true, good, and Noble in the light leads to a first perfect being
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aquínas 5th way
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governance of the world. There is endirected behavior therefore there must be an intelligent director
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Aristotle 4 causes
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1. material
2. formal 3. efficient 4. final cause |
