Existence of God
The name of the argument that Anselm created.
What is the Ontological Argument?
The author of the myth of Sysiphus.
Who is Albert Camus?
Give an example of both an essential truth and an accidental truth.
What is right angles being 90 degrees (essential) and Mrs. Martin's hair being brown (accidental)?
True or false. Descartes doubts universal reasoning.
What is true. He thinks an evil demon could be deceiving him.
The philosophical term for the kind of knowledge that is empirical.
What is a posteriori knowledge?
Who killed God, according to Nietzsche.
Who is us (humanity)?
The Jewish philosopher who wrote on evil.
Who is Maimonides?
What is being represented by the prisoner's ascent in Plato's Allegory of the Cave.
What is 'discovering the truth'?
The element Descartes uses to show that dreams must be based on reality.
What is color?
Name the way ideas and impressions are differentiated.
What is simple and complex?
The three alternatives CS Lewis proposed for who Jesus Christ could be.
What is lunatic, liar, or Lord?
The name and religion of the philosopher who thought we could know God's existence by looking into nature.
Who is Averroes and Islam?
Define the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
What is 'All things must have a cause proportional the effect they produce (think law of conservation of energy)'?
Descartes' 3 kinds of ideas.
What are innate, invented, adventitious?
1 example of an idea and 1 example of an impression, according to David Hume.
What is 'a thought about my favorite book' and 'the anger the book produces when my favorite character dies'?
Aquinas' 5 ways for the existence of God.
1. Motion (change)
2. Efficient Cause
3. Possibility/Necessity
4. Degrees (perfection)
5. Order
'The Philosopher' referred to be Thomas Aquinas.
Who is Aristotle?
Name at least 3 negative effects of absolute relativism.
What is...
No point in scientific exploration
No point in progress
No point in education
No point in discussion
The reason that Descartes' uses the wax argument.
What is to show that knowledge comes from the mind alone?
The way one can tell the difference between a Humean idea and impression.
What is their liveliness?
Kant's two responses to Anselm's argument.
What is:
‘Being’ (existence) is not really a predicate
‘Logically, it is merely the copula of a judgment’ (1189)
God’s existence must be a synthetic judgment, not analytic.
The dates Plato was alive.
What is 428-347BC?
Examples of Aristotle's 3 kinds of substance.
What are sensible (plants, animals, heavenly bodies), immovable (forms, mathematics), something other (unmoved mover)?
Descartes' two kinds of thoughts and the one kind that can be false.
What are ideas and actions with ideas (emotions, judgments, volitions)? What are judgments can be false?
Give example of a simple and complex idea.
What is redness (simple) and apple (complex: redness, crunchiness, tartness, etc.)