Honors Section
Review Sheet for Oral Midterm 2

Part I

Possible Short Questions

Answers

 

  1. What are the two stages in the development of sin, and how do they arise from pride? (Use the given example) Answer
  2. What is the Role of Reason versus Faith in traditional Christianity?Answer
  3. What it significant about transcendental argument form (St. Thomas's)Answer
  4. Give one argument for the existence of God (from Thomas or Anselm)Answer
  5. What is free will? How is it both objective and subjective? How does it provide emergent values and transform evil to good?Answer
  6. Can Love be completely objective? Why or why not? Can Love be completely subjective? Why or why not?Answer
  7. What is (a) the Problem of  Evil and (b) the Christian solution to the problem of evil? (2 parts)Answer
  8. What is Dostoevsky's criticism of the Christian Solution to the Problem of Evil?Answer
  9. Distinguish between contingent and logical necessity in explaining the necessity of evil. Give an example.Answer
  10. What is the difference between traditional Christianity and Christian Existentialism and how is this related to the positions of Franny and Zooey?Answer
  11. What is an existentialist solution to the problem of evil?Answer
  12. Summarize the similarities and differences between Christianity and Plato on the nature of happiness and the virtues. Answer
  13. Summarize the main similarities and differences between  Christianity and Plato on the nature of  reality, God, and human nature.Answer
  14. How does unconditional love transform the self  and make it reborn according to Christianity?Answer
  15. What was Galileo’s criticism of the Aristotelian Medieval Mode of Explanation?Answer
  16.  How does the scientific method involve the mind and not the senses?Answer
  17. What does the following phrase mean “Qualitatively identical particles having only the formal mathematical properties of matter extended in space and timeAnswer
  18. If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? Use the distinction between Primary and Secondary properties to answer this question.Answer
  19. What were Descartes’s two main aims in the Meditations? How did he achieve each?Answer
  20. What is Descartes’s proof of his own existence? Why is the argument important? Does he agree or disagree with science?Answer
  21. What is the main problem with Substance Dualism?Answer
  22. What is the main problem with Physicalism?Answer
  23. What is an argument for the Dual aspect theory that is not also an argument for materialism?Answer
  24. How does the emergent view of the self explain the possibility of immortality? of freedom?Answer
  25. What is compatibilism? How does it claim that free will and science are compatible?Answer

Part II:

Thesis defense for Presentations 4-7.