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WorksheetsHZT4U Metaphysics Test Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
William Paley's argument states that the order that characterizes the universe must have been designed and set in motion by a supreme being.
ontological argument
cosmological argument
teleological argument
deism
Which philosopher wrote about the the Euthyphro dilemma in addressing the relationshop between God, good & evil?
Blaise Pascal
Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
Plato
Thinking is nothing more than electro chemical material reactions in the brain. What theory is this which is associated with Thomas Hobbes & Gilbert Ryle?
materialism
idealism
libertarianism
solipism
He is an agnostic believes we do not have enough information to make an informed decision or some believe we are not meant to understand whether a supreme being exists.
Karl Marx
Blaise Pascal
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Henry Huxley
Aquinas' argument states a supreme being must exist because of the chain of causes must have a beginning.
fideism
cosmological argument
ontological argument
deism
Fideism speaks that an individual must take a leap of faith to understand God's existence.
Soren Kierkegaard
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blaise Pascal
Batman
Deists believe that God does not interfere with the world, answer prayers or create miracles. Who is connected to this theory?
Hume
Marx
Laplace
Voltaire
Berkeley and Vasubandhu believe that thoughts, and in fact all things, are basically mental not physical
pragmatism
materialism
deism
idealism
Kant believed the idea of time originated in the human mind as a mental construct devised to organize our experiences
objective time
subjective relativity of time
absolute time
zen buddhist time
His perceiver relativity argument states out understanding of the relationship between evil and the universe is based in a extremely limited perspective
Mackie
Aquinas
Leibnitz
Hume
Which philosopher is associated with zen buddhist time?
Dogen
Descartes
Hume
Voltaire
He argues religion is an expression of material realities and economic injustice, viewed as the "opiate of the masses"
Sigmund Freud
David Hume
Karl Marx
JL Mackie
Which of these is not an example of a supporter of theism
Soren Kierkegaard
William Paley
Sigmund Freud
Thomas Aquinas
Newton believed in absolute time which is the belief time is independent of events.
absolute time
zen buddist time
subjective relativity of time
objective relativity of time
William James support of truth is what works by experience
logical positivism
pragmatism
Things are morally good or bad, permissible, or prohibited, solely because of God’s will or commands it.
teleological argument
Euthyphyro Dilemma
divine command theory
Pascal's Wasger
The logical argument from evil argued on the basis of the free will defence comes from...
JL Mackie
John Paul Sartre
Rene Descartes
Pierre Laplace
Hume noted that religion often point to these as credibility of their religious doctrines.
none of these options
explanations by theologians
sacred texts
miracles
Bertrand Russell or Auguste Comte would say that only knowledge that is arrived empirically is scientifically valuable
pragmatism
logical positivism
A division of philosophy that is concerned with the fundamental nature of reality and being.
political philosophy
metaphysics
ethics
logic
A disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of a supreme being.
agnosticism
theism
atheism
Believes in the idea of free will in the sense the agent is an originator of causal chains
libertarianism
determinism
Anselm's theory that God exists because God must exist as existence is a feature of perfection.
fideism
deism
cosmological argument
ontological argument
Pascal's Wager is significant to philosophy as it
examines the nature of time
examines the nature of religious belief
examines the relationship between mind and body
examines the nature of the soul
This theory operates on that every event is an instance of some law of nature, a complete absence of free will.
determinism
libertarianism
