scholars Flashcards
(38 cards)
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Verification principle
Ayer
“nonsensical and meaningless”
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falsification principle
Flew
“god dies a death of a thousand qualifications”
parable of the gardener
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who presents the idea of eschatological verification?
Hick
parable of the celestial city
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who presented the idea of Bliks and the parable of the lunatic?
Hare
bliks - fixed worldviews
uses the parable to back this up
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who thought of ‘language games’
Wittgenstein
language is context dependent in order to be meaningful
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who can be labelled as ‘classical’ and ‘later’
Wittgenstein
early -1920s
later - 1950s
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who presents symbolic language as an argument of religious language?
Tillich
symbols have a deeper meaning revealing a higher level of reality
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who presents the idea of analogical language
Aquinas
equivocal and univocal language
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who are the three scholars who talk about the apophatic way?
St Thomas Aquinas
Moses Maimonides
Pseudo Dionysus
via negativa, talk about what god isnt to get closer to what he is
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who said “by way of negation” about via negativa
Aquinas
via negativa, talk about what god isnt to get closer to what he is
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who said “god is beyond all being and knowledge” about via negativa
Pseudo Dionysus
via negativa, talk about what god isnt to get closer to what he is
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who says “this is the ultimate knowledge of god: to know what we don’t know about him”
Aquinas
via negativa, talk about what god isnt to get closer to what he is
evil and suffering
who presents the logical PofE
Mackie
inconsistent triad, backed by Epicurean paradox
evil and suffering
who presents the evidential PofE
- Hume
- Rowe
“the rock of atheism” “Quality and Quantity”, deer in a forest fire
evil and suffering
Who presents the Soul Deciding theodicy?
Augustine
men are the finished article, evil is the privation of good
misuse of free will creates evil
evil and suffering
who developed the soul developing theodicy?
irenaeus
“a world without perils would be morally static” created imperfectly
we gain virtues by experiencing pain, making us closer to god.
evil and suffering
who created the vale of soulmaking, influenced by irenaeus?
Hick
“evil and suffering are necessary for moral development”
also does esch.verif in religlang
evil and suffering
who FIRST presented the free will defence?
Mackie
cannot have free will without evil
evil and suffering
who responded to mackies free will defence
Plantinga
Swinburne
“the goodness of robots” -swinburne
“overprotective parent” -plantinga
evil and suffering
who presented process theology
Griffin
god “tidied up the existing chaos” rejection of creation ex nihilo
arguments for the existence of god
who presented the design argument
Paley
watch analogy, watch had a maker, so does the universe
“every manifestation of design exists in nature”
**Hume ** provides criticisms
arguments for the existence of god
cosmological argument
Aquinas
argument for contingency, motion and causation
everything is contingent, we rely on something necessary, there is no infinite regress, something started the chain, god as the necessary being started the chain
arguments for the existence of god
which two men gave a debate on the arguments that aquinas raised in the cosmological argument?
Russell
Coppleston
fallacy of composition, necessary being, contingency
russell rejects aquinas
coppleston reformulated aquinas’ argument, focusing on contingency
arguments for the existence of god
Ontological argument?
Anselm
“god is the greatest conceivable being”
the idea of god means he exists, the athiests saying theres no god still say ‘god’ meaning they’re rejecting the idea but hes still existent
