Grecians God Michaelmas review

Decartes' ontological argument:

P1) We have an idea of God as a supremely perfect being.

P2) A supremely perfect being ​ (a)   ​ ​ ​

P3) Existence is a perfection.

C1) Therefore, a supremely perfect being (God) exists.

 

• is a coherent concept
• has all perfections
• is the greatest conceivable being
• does not exist
• has necessary existence

What kind of argument is Malcolm's ontological argument?

• Deductive

• Dilemma

• Analogy

• Abductive

What kind of argument is Hume's teleological argument?

• Deductive

• Dilemma

• Analogy

• Abductive

What kind of argument is Paley's teleological argument (according to Lacewing)?

• Deductive

• Dilemma

• Analogy

• Abductive

What kind of argument is Aquinas' second way?

• Deductive

• Dilemma

• Analogy

• Abductive

What kind of argument is the Paradox of the Stone?

• Deductive

• Dilemma

• Analogy

• Abductive

Euthyphro dilemma:

P1) Either A or B is ​ (a)   :

A. What is ​ (b)   is ​ (c)   of God’s will, and God is good because he wills what is good;

B. What is good depends on God’s will, God wills that ​ some things are good and others are not.

C1) If A is true then God is not ​ (d)   , because he does not have the power to turn bad into good or good into bad.

C2) If B is true then God has the power to make evil things good, which violates our sense of morality.

C3) Therefore, either the concept of God as omnipotent and ​ (e)   is incoherent or the concept of God violates our sense of morality.

 

• false
• good
• independent
• dependent on
• omnipotent
• omniscient
• eternal
• supremely good
• true

Put Anselm's ontological argument into the correct order.

• A being that exists in the mind and in reality is greater than one that exists only in the mind.

• The previous statement is a contradiction, so we must reject our supposition, so the GCB must exist in the mind and in reality.

• Suppose that the GCB exists only in the mind and not in reality.

• The concept of a being than which none greater can be conceived (GCB) exists as a coherent concept in the mind.

• Based on our supposition, there is something greater than the GCB.

What is the aim of Aquinas' 3rd way?

• To argue that God exists as a first, unmoved, mover.

• To argue that God exists as a first, uncaused, cause.

• To argue that God exists as a necessary being.

• To argue that God is the caused the beginning of the universe.

Match the philosopher to their alternative explanation for evidence of design in the world.

• Epicurus

• The world may have not been created by the architect of the universe

• Darwin

• The world may have arisen through a random processes

• Kant

• Natural selection explains the design of living things