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How many characters are there in the section from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion that you read? What are their names?
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3; Philo, Demea, and Cleanthes
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What is "Epicurus's old question"?
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•Is he willing to prevent evil, but not able? then he is impotent.
•Is he able, but not willing? then he is malevolent. •Is he both able and willing? then where does evil come from? |
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Cleanthes thinks that there is only one way to support divine benevolence. What is it?
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"To deny absolutely the misery and
wickedness of man." |
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Which character is the most critical of the compatibility between the existence of God and the existence of evil?
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Philo: "the universe is a machine, its only goal is the bare survival of each species, not that any species be happy."
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Anthropomorphism
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An interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics
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An interpretation of what is not human or personal in terms of human or personal characteristics
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Anthropomorphism
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3; _____, Demea, and Cleanthes
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Philo
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3; Philo, _____, and Cleanthes
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Demea
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3; Philo, Demea, and _____
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Cleanthes
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