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20 Cards in this Set
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Martin Luther King Jr. - St. Augustine Quote
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St. Augustine - "Unjust law is no law at all."
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Human Rights
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1. Constitution
2. God-given 3. Human Dignity |
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Martin Luther King Jr. Quote
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"
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Person
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because of what and who they are, have human rights.
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Person vs. Thing
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Man is different in kind (not just degree from the animals)
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Difference in Kind
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if one thing has a feature/characteristic the other lacks
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Difference in Degree
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If one thing has more of a feature than another
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Comprehensive, Consistent, Coherent
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1. At the end of the day what makes the most sense
2. Internally (no contradictions) 3. With other things we know about the world. |
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Humans vs. Animals 1
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Ask questions, discover, and progress (birds nest)
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Humans vs. Animals 2
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Historical (record things sense of past and future)
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Human vs. Animals 3
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Make laws, sets up conventional government (animals gather by instinct humans don't)
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Human vs. Animals 4
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Fine Arts (humans create things that aren't useful)
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Human vs. Animals 5
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Moral Debate (rational argument presupposes there is some objective: truth to the matter
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Human vs. Animals 6
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Philosophical and Religous
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Human vs. Animals 7
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Syntactical Language- participles, prepositions (poetry, metaphors etc.)
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Intellect and Will
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Implies God's existance and a law derived from him that we fail to live up to.
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Covenant
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Exchange of persons- oath, God's name blessing and curse
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Contract
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Exchange of goods or services- private promise (employee vs. employer)
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2 ways to God's Existance
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1. from human person (men's spiritual nature and moral law)
2. from the world |
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God's Existance - From the World
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1. Order in nature which is what we understand in our mathematical laws of nature.
2. Existance of natural world is contigent- needs an explanation (God) |
