Faith & Reason
This is the belief in things that cannot be seen but are trusted based on God’s revelation.
What is faith?
1.) Whatever begins to exist has a cause for its coming into being
2.) The universe began to exist
3.) Therefore, the universe has a cause for its coming into being
Kalam Cosmological Argument
These are the parts of this thing
1. Object (What we do)2. Intention (Why we do it)
3. Circumstances
What is the Moral Act?
True or False: According to Kant, it is morally acceptable to treat people only as means to our own ends
What is false?
It is illegal to place a coin in one's ear in this state
According to Catholic teaching, this human ability allows us to think logically, discover truth, and understand the world.
What is reason?
Teological Argument (Fine Tuning)
1.) The universe displays a staggering amount of intelligibility, both within things we observe and in the way these things relate to others outside themselves.
2.) Either this intelligible order is the product of chance or of intelligent design.
3.) Not chance.
4.) Therefore the universe is the product of intelligent design.
5.) Design comes only from a mind, a designer.
6.) Therefore the universe is the product of an intelligent designer.
What is the Fine Tuning Argument?
This is when some actions have good and bad effects (intend something good, but there are bad side effects).
What is Double Effect?
True or False: Both Kant and Mill base their moral theories on reason alone
What is true?
What is Alaska?
What is epistemology?
1.) Motion
2.) Efficient Casuality
3.) Contingency
4.) Gradation/Degrees of Perfection
5.) Teleology (Design)
What are Aquinas' Five Ways?
This is the lack of sanctifying grace that we inherit from our first parents, Adam and Eve
What is sin?
Mill's view that the right action is the one produces the greatest amount if pleasure for the greatest number of people is called the:
What is the principle of utility?
In this state, it is illegal to ride a horse above 10 mph
What is Indiana?
This famous Catholic thinker argued that natural reason can prove God’s existence.
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas?
1. Real moral obligation is a fact. We are really, truly, objectively obligated to do goof and avoid evil.
2. Either the atheistic view of reality is correct or the "religious" one
3. But the atheistic one is incompatible with there being moral obligation
4. Therefore the "religious" view of reality is correct
What is the Moral Argument?
This is sin that is grave, or serious, sin, which cuts us off from the life of grace; thus, those who die in this state go to hell.
What is mortal sin?
According to Kant, this is what makes someone's will good.
What is following the moral law for the sake of the moral law?
In this city, it is illegal to walk your elephant down Market Street without a leash.
What is San Francisco, California?
Faith is considered this type of virtue—it comes from God and cannot be earned.
What is theological virtue?
P1: Every natural, innate desire in us corresponds to some real object that can satisfy desire
P2: But there exists in us a desire which nothing in time, nothing on earth, no creature can satisfy.
Conclusion: Therefore there must exist something more than time, earth and creatures, which can satisfy this desire.
What is the Argument from Desire?
This is an act of judgment, using reason, about the morality of an action; it is the inner sanctuary where man meets God and discerns His will.
What is conscience?
Mill based his utilitarian moral theory on this.
What are consequences?
This was Caleb's response to "Pickle or Nickel?"
What is a Pickle?