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Religious Language- Ayer vs Wittgenstein

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Ayer- Wittgenstein provides no hierarchy of games- we should, in theory be just as accepting of superstition as we are of actual theology

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Ancient Influences- Aristotle criticism of Plato

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How can the Form of the Good apply to all objects? - a human is not good in the same way a horse may be

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God’s Attributes- Molina

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Natural, middle and free knowledge (real, possible and hypothetical)- only natural is necessary to God

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Religious Experience- Mackie

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If mystical experiences are psychologically explainable, they can have no authority and cannot be automatically believed

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Religious Experience- Feuerbach

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Humans project fears of mortality and unanswerable questions onto God

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Religious Language- Ferre

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Language can describe but not define God

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Soul, Mind and Body- Anscombe

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A body is needed to point, but cannot explain the meaning of it

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Religious Experience- Swinburne

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Reasonable probability of God’s existence if all other arguments are taken into account

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Religious Language- Maimonides

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Positive statements about God are improper- Via Negativa is the only way

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Religious Language- Ayer

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To speak of God is meaningless- not practically verifiable

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Teleology- Hume quote

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‘How hostile and destructive’

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Cosmology- Emmet

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God could not have started existence as he is timeless- no chronology

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God’s Attributes- Kraal

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‘God and goodness are identical’- Euthyphro Dilemma is false, not a question of which came first

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God’s Attributes- Hick

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God cannot be omnibenevolent if he created hell

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Ontology- Descartes

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The quality of existence can no more be separated from God than three angles totalling 180 can be separated from the idea of a triangle

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God’s Attributes- Craig (2)

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God may be everlasting- change does not necessarily signal improvement as is argued
Time needs to be viewed as one unitary thing rather than a continuous process to consider God as timeless

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Cosmology- Dawkins

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Universe is a purposeless ‘brute fact’- against Leibniz’s sufficient reason

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God’s Attributes- Anselm

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God exists in 4 dimensions outside of time, cannot be understood in ideas of linear chronology

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God’s Attributes- Pike

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God is everlasting- timelessness would rid humans of free will and make reality as a simulation

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Cosmology- Russell

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‘I should say that the universe is just there and that is all’- against Leibniz’s sufficient reason

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Religious Experience- Hume

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Draws attention to human ‘love of fantastical’ and bizarre- stories often exaggerated or embellished

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Religious Experience- Lash

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James makes religion dependent on a few pattern-setters

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Religious Experience- James quote

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‘They point with reasonable probability to the continuity of our consciousness with a wider, spiritual environment from which the ordinary man is shut off’

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Religious Experience- James vs Mackie

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Religion and neurological fallacy perfectly compatible
One never brings up ‘author’s neurotic constitution’ in science

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Religious Language- Weismann quote
'A statement which cannot be conclusively verified is simply devoid of any meaning'
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God's Attributes- Swinburne
God is everlasting- eternal present for God implies all earthly moments take place all at once
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Ancient Influences- Russell
Plato's Theory of the Forms falls into 'a bottomless pit of nonsense'
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God's Attributes- Cullman
God is everlasting- moves through time with us and knows all that is logically possible to know
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God's Attributes- Lafleur
God is everlasting- if he existed outside of the bounds of time, he would have no means of interaction- no religious significance or omnipotence
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Religious Language- Barth
God cannot be defined with language and worldly experience- only with direct revelation
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God's Attributes- Kenny
Boethius seems to suggest that all earthly moments take place at once- evidently untrue
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God's Attributes- Descartes
God can do the logically impossible- i.e. interact from outside of time
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God's Attributes- Davies
God's goodness is not simply being well-behaved, sin is an impossibility for God
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Problem of Evil- Schleiermacher
Evil cannot have created itself from a perfect world- criticism of Augustine
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Soul, Mind and Body- Dawkins
No immortal consciousness separate from brain
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Religious Language- Popper
The truth or falsehood of a statement is determined by whether it can be empirically tested
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Soul, Mind and Body- Simmias
Plato's soul need not exist in a former or future life, only before birth and after death
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God's Attributes- Geach
God is everlasting- 'Supreme Grand Master' whose plan will be executed
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Soul, Mind and Body- Dennett
Behaviourism over-simplifies human consciousness down to that of a lower animal
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Cosmology- Davies
It is not the same part of the animal which moves as that which causes it to move (counter argument to the claim that Aquinas is wrong to say nothing causes its own motion)
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Cosmology- Mackie
It is not self-contradictory to conclude that the universe is purposeless- argument against Leibniz who insists on a sufficient reason for it
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Cosmology- Copleston
Cause and effect clearly exists and is inherent in all movement- against Hume's claim that there is no such thing
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Teleology- Kant
Ideas of order and purpose in nature are simply impositions of the mind
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Problem of Evil- Irenaeus Quote
'How, if we had no knowledge of the contrary, could we have instruction in that which is good?'
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Soul, Mind and Body- Swinburne
Human identity and 'fundamental truths' such as conscience and good will are found in soul
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Soul, Mind and Body- Ward
Without soul, morality is a matter of personal taste
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Soul, Mind and Body- Watts
One does not know how to open and close the hand- a physiologist does, but this does not enable him to do so any more than I (non-dualist)
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Religious Experience- Lofland and Stark
Element of 'passivity' discovered in conversion experiences- something acting upon them
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Teleology- Dawkins
There is no order in the universe- 'brute fact'
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God's Attributes- Craig (omnipotence)
Omnipotence is full capability of all that is logically possible
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Cosmology- Hawking
Infinite universe with no beginning or end- no room or need for Creator
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God's Attributes- Hartshorne and Process Theologians
God is everlasting- part of the world as well as above it, held by laws of physics, moves through time with us with no foreknowledge
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Soul, Mind and Body- Flew
There can be no soul without body as no smile without a face or seal without wax
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God's Attributes- Mill
God cannot be omnibenevolent if he created an imperfect world
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Religious Experience- Sartre
A 'matter of interpretation', distinct from actual event
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Ancient Influences- Parmenides (2)
Plato fails to explain exactly how a material object partakes in its Form Do all things, even mundane and seemingly purposeless, have a perfect Form?
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Cosmology- Kenny
'A king-maker need not himself be king, and it is not dead men who commit murder'- argument against Aquinas' claim that only something in actuality can cause something else in actuality
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Soul, Mind and Body- two categories of Monism
Idealistic Monism- only the mind exists (Leibniz) Materialistic monism- only matter exists (Russell, Dawkins)
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Teleology- Swinburne
Discredits Many Worlds Hypothesis Given Anthropic Coincidences, God is the most simple answer
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Religious Experience- Flew
Ten flawed arguments do not make one sound cumulative one- against prior probability argument
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God's Attributes- Philips
God is not an object among other objects- cannot be understood in human ideas of temporality
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Religious Experience- Freud
Religion an illusion based on human wishes and unfulfillment- Oedipus complex
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Soul, Mind and Body- Carlin
Plato fails to account for growing population with fixed number of souls
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Religious Language- Hare
Parable of the Lunatic- religious people will change the terms of the discussion despite evidence to the contrary- religious language is meaningless
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Teleology- Mill
Flawed design implies a flawed creator incompatible with Judeo-Christian thought
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Soul, Mind and Body- Aristotle quote
'The soul does not exist without a body and yet is not itself a kind of body'
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Soul, Mind and Body- Skinner
All mental acts are simply learned behaviours
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God's Attributes- Rowe quote
'God could no more cease to be perfectly good than a triangle could cease to have three angles'
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Soul, Mind and Body- Descartes quote
'This "I" is entirely distinct from the body, and would not fail to be whatever it is, even if the body did not exist'
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God's Attributes- Augustine
'thy "today" yields not to tomorrow and does not follow yesterday'
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Religious Experience- Maudsley
'What right have we to believe God is under any obligation to do his work by complete minds only?'
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God's Attributes- Kotarbinski
Temporality cannot be separated from existence- God cannot exist 'outside of time' as Boethius claims
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God's Attributes- Frankena
God can still be omnibenevolent despite varying degrees of suffering among people- justice is not treating everyone equally
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God's Attributes- Kierkegaard
God is everlasting- cannot be active in time if he is apart from it
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Cosmology- Temple
An infinite regress can be conceived but not imagined- argument against Aquinas' claim that it is logically incomprehensible
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Cosmology- Hume
Ideas of 'cause' and 'effect' are products of the human mind and do not really exist, yet underpin Cosmology
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Ontology- Kant (2 points)
To say 'God exists' adds nothing to the concept of God Existence is not a proper predicate- the quality of existence being necessary to his concept does not necessitate existence in actuality
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Religious Experience- Cottingham
Experiences may well be spiritual or supernatural but not necessarily religious

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