Chapter 3 Philosophy Review

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Anselm
came up with the Ontological argument
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Atheism
denial of theism; the view that God or a go does not exist
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Agnosticism
a claim of ignorance particularly of religious matters; the claim that Gods existence can be neither proved nor disproved
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Anthropomorphism
the attributing of human qualities to a nonhuman entities, especially God
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Cosmological Argument
argument for the existence of God that claims that there must be an ultimate casual explanation for why the universe as a totality exists
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Design Argument
an argument for the existence of God that claims that the order and purpose manifest in the working of things in the universe require God
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Ontological Argument
an argument for the existence of God based on the nature of Gods being
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Religious Belief
the doctrines of a religion about the universe and ones relation to the super natural
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Theology
the rational study of God, including religious doctrines
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Religious Experience
subjective experience interpreted within a religious framework
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Teleological Argument
the view that natural organisms have a purpose or are designed to achieve an end; a view that maintains that purpose is inherent in nature and affirms that the universe was either consciously designed for or is operating under some partly conscious, partly unconscious, purpose
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St. Augustine
Reality contains within itself every possible kind of being from the lowest kind of inert matter to the highest kind of spirit
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George Berkeley
Founder of modern Idealism
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Thomas Hobbes
we can know only the measurable aspects of objects, so we can only say that measurable objects exist
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Democritus
all real objects are made up of atoms
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Immanuel Kant
argued that the ontological argument was flawed because it implies that existence is a characteristic of God to prove the argument/ that existence is a part of the concept
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Thomas Aquinas
came up with the cosmological argument based on Aristotles ideas
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W.A Dembski
one of Paleys defenders and believers of intelligent design, stated that the specificity and improbability of genes implies that they were produced by God and not by chance
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William Paley
supported the design argument
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Sigmund Freud
argued that people believe because they have an infantile need to be watched over by a father-like figure
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John Hick
argues that evil is necessary because a paradies without pain, suffering, or evil, ethics would be meaningless and people would not be virtuous
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Anselm
The archbishop of Cantrerbury offered an argument that relied on reason alone of that the nature of God is the proof of God.
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Ernest Nagel
atheism is a form of materialism
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Ninian Smart
religion has six dimensions: doctorine, experience, myth, ritual, morality and organization
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Ernest Nagel
atheism is a form of materialism
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Paul Davies
physcist that pointed out that the laws of the universe seem to be designed in a way that human life could flourish
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Rene Descartes
we have in our minds an idea of a perfect God that we could not have made up ourselves, this means he must exist
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George Mavrodes
theistic understanding of evolution, teleology played part
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