Logic and Arguments
An argument with premises and a conclusion
What is a syllogism
The argument for God that looks at the world as designed by an Intelligent Designer
What is the Teleological Argument
He wrote The Meditations and Discourse on Method where he doubted everything he possibly could--everything that he took for granted that was real.
Who is Rene Descartes
The belief that humans are made up of a physical body and an immaterial soul or mind.
What is dualism
A moral theory first expounded by Jeremy Bentham
What is utilitarianism
Aristotle's highest form of argument aligning itself with reason.
What is Logos
If God is all loving and Omnipotent why is there ________ in the world?
What is Evil
T/F: You cannot know something that is not true.
What is true
Physical laws are cited by this theory as evidence that humans are not free
What is determinism
A Prussian philosopher who disagreed that the moral thing to do has to do with the consequences of an action. Instead he thought motivation was very important. We should be doing the right thing for the right reason.
Who is Immanuel Kant
When an argument's premises are true and it is valid.
What is sound
This is the one argument for God's existence we studied that relied on an analogy.
What is the Teleological Argument or the Fine Tuning Argument.
One of the British Empiricists
Who is Locke, Berkley, or Hume
The idea that there is no soul or mind, but that this is all just your physical brain.
What is materialism
He wrote the Nichomachean Ethics where he developed the idea of a virtue being the 'Golden Mean' in between two extremes.
Who is Aristotle
Arguments that rely on something happening over and over again making the conclusion something that is likely to happen
What are inductive arguments
This argument for God's existence relies on an uncaused Cause or an unmoved Mover.
What is the Cosmological Argument
The belief the knowledge does not come from experience, but is something we can figure out in our minds.
What is rationalism
True or False: Descartes proved with his Method of Doubt that he could not doubt that other minds exist.
What is False
The name for the idea Kant came up with that we should always act in a way that we would want everyone to act.
What is The Categorical Imperative
There are three marks of a good argument:
validity, soundness, and _______________
What is convinceability
The saint who developed the Ontological argument for God's existence.
Who is St. Anselm
Plato's metaphysics which described a reality beyond this world with ideal things like Justice and other perfect objects that informed this world.
What is the Theory of Forms
A thought experiment that sets out to question whether we can be certain of what we experience with our senses. It states that it is possible that evil scientists are making us believe what we think we are experiencing through electric probes.
What is the Brain in the Vat argument.
Feminist ethics is often described as preferring _______ over Justice.
What is Care or an Ethic of Care.
Is this a valid or invalid argument:
P1: All horses are unicorns.
P2: My pretty pony is a horse.
C: My pretty pony is a unicorn.
What is VALID argument.
True or False: One of the criticisms of the Ontological Argument is that it was formulated before Darwin's theory of evolution, and therefore an intelligent designer is not the only explanation for the complexity of the world.
What is FALSE.
True or False: God was the one thing Descartes could not doubt.
What is FALSE