LV - Philosophy of Religion - L1-3

'Philosophy' means...

• Love of wisdom

• Finding wisdom

• Love of thinking

• Finding love

Knowledge is acquired through logic or reason

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

Knowledge is acquired through the senses

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

God exists

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

• Depends who you ask

The Law of Non-Contradiction states that X and not X ....

• cannot be true ever

• cannot be true at the same time

• can be true at the same time

• is always true

Omnipotence means...

• All-powerful

• All-loving

• All-knowing

• All-present

He argued that because God was omnipotent, God could make a square circle

• Descartes

• Aquinas

• Plato

• Aristotle

He argued that God cannot break the laws of logic because that would be nonsense and a square circle cannot exist

• Descartes

• Aquinas

• Plato

• Aristotle

An attribute of God which claims that God is outside of time and space

• Immanent

• Transcendent

• Eternal

• Immortal

The argument which argues that everything has a cause, and God must be the first cause is called...

• Cosmological Argument

• Teleological Argument

• Ontological Argument

• Empirical Argument