Are these things that Plato or Christianity or Both would say about God or the Form of the Good?
¨ abstract or general
¨ pure form
¨ a person
¨ cares about individual humans.
¨ transcendent
Are these things that Plato, or Christianity, or both would believe?
¨ believes complete happiness is possible.
¨ believes that subjective attachments are important.
¨ Transcendent realm involves the subjective or internal.
¨ believes you should detach yourself from all subjective attachments.
¨ believes transcendent realm is objective and cannot be subjective.
¨ believes that human beings cannot escape pain and be completely happy.
¨ believes in a transcendent realm.
True or false:
A sin is an act that offends God
A virtue is an act that pleases God.
A sin an unhealthy state of the will or character
A virtue is a Healthy state of the will or character.
match
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Cardinal Virtues |
Plato Christianity Only Objective. |
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Christian Virtues |
Involves the Will Are both objective and subjective Involves only Reason |
True of Thomas or Anselm or neither.
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¨ God is proven to exist by trying to explain the existence of the universe, which we know from experience.
¨ God is proven to exist by seeing that God thinks, therefore He must exist.
¨ God is proven to exist by seeing that his idea of God included necessary existence.
¨ God is proven to exist by seeing that his idea of God had a formal reality which was greater than the cause of its objective reality.
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We cannot prove God's existence; it could only be known by faith.¨
Reason was a substitute for faith.True or false:
1. Science believes that nature consists of qualitatively identical particles.
2. Science believes that every particle is unique and individual.
3. Science deals with common everyday experience.
4. Science tries to separate the pure properties from the impure perceptions we normally perceive by only considering controlled experiments under idealized situations.
5. Science believes that all objects have internal natures that determine their final goals.
6. Science deals with concrete particular realities.
7. Science believes that objects in nature have no internal natures.
8. Science believes that all things are moved by final causation; they move in order to fulfill a purpose.
9. Science believes that things are moved only by contact; by efficient causation.
10. Science is more like Aristotle than Plato, because it emphasizes the importance of sense experience.
11. Science is more like Plato than Aristotle, because it emphasizes the way in which appearances can deceive us.
12. Science works by abstraction of the formal properties of matter.
13. The scientific revolution represented a move back to an Aristotelianism dependence on observation from the Platonism of the Middle ages.
14. The scientific revolution involved paying more attention to everyday common sense experience.
matching:
Primary properties secondary properties
1. color, odor, tone.
2. are the real properties that an object has apart from any observer
3. formal mathematical properties of space and time.
4. exist only in the mind.
5. are the effects that an object has on an observer.
6. shape, size, number, speed
7. we know them through the senses
8. we know them by using the mind to analyze the senses
9. physical magnitudes.
10. internal natures.
Science, Aristotle, or neither?
a. transcendent.
b. composed of qualitatively identical particles.
c. has values and inherent tendencies.
d. completely objective.
e. subjective.
f. formal.
g. extended in space and time.
h. composed of particles which are all unique and different from one another.
T or F
1. A Main aim of Descartes in the Meditations was To prove that we are immortal.
2. A Main aim of Descartes in the Meditations was To show how science and religion could both be true.
3. A Main aim of Descartes in the Meditations was To refute science and show that religion is true.
4. A Main aim of Descartes in the Meditations was To refute religion and show that science is true.
5. A Main aim of Descartes in the Meditations was To prove that we cannot not know if anything exists, because we might be dreaming.
6. A Main aim of Descartes in the Meditations was To prove that God exists.
7. A Main aim of Descartes in the Meditations was To provide a foundation for scientific method and show that this foundation was the mind, not the senses.
8. Descartes main aim in the Meditations was to show that nothing really existed because we can never know that we are not dreaming.
9. Descartes held that through the senses we only perceive the contents of our own mind.
10. Descartes disagreed with Plato and thought that the more subjective you get the more real you get was true for all that existed.
11. Descartes agreed with Plato on the role of objectivity in the physical world.
12. Descartes disagreed with Plato on the role of objectivity in the physical world.
13. Descartes agreed with Plato on the role of objectivity in the mind or soul.
14. Descartes disagreed with Plato on the role of objectivity for the mind
15. Descartes disagreed with Plato that objectivity was reality for all that existed.
Did Descartes us these to accomplish aim 1, 2, or neither.
a. Showing that a non-deceiving God exists and is the source of our reason. ___
b. Showing that God is an evil deceiving demon.___
c. Showing that mind and body are separate substances.___
d. showing that we are a thinking substance because can be certain of the ___existence of our mind, but not our body.
e. showing that knowledge from the senses is reliable.___
f. Showing that we cannot be sure that anything exists.___
g. Showing that all our knowledge from the senses is open to doubt.___
Match
A substance dualism
B dual aspect theory
C Materialism
1. mind and body are connected somehow and interact.
2. mind and body are completely distinct and separate.
3. There is a unique and irreducible content to mental states that cannot be duplicated in any physical account.
4. mental states can be fully reduced to physical states.
5. mind and body are radically different types of stuff.
6. Body does not exist; all is mind.
7. mind and body are two different ways of looking at the same thing.
8. human behavior is completely explainable in terms of objective physical properties
9. Transcendent agent
10. Emergent self
11. Empiricist self
12. the self results from the organization or arrangement of our physically affected components and is not separate from them.
13. there is no self; it breaks down into all its components.
14. The self is separate from all the physically affected components of our bodies and minds.
15. When one looks at all the parts that make a person one finds no self.
16. When one looks at all the parts that make a person one finds no self, so the self must be some imperceptible or transcendent part.
17 The self is not another part, but how the parts work together as a whole.