Philosophy

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According to Kant, nothing can be called good without qualification except

A good will

According to Held, care is both

A practice and a value

Kant says that when trying to decide whether an action is morally permissible we must ask if our actions should become

A universal law

A group of statements in which one of them is meant to be supported by the other is

An argument

The fallacy of rejecting a statement on the grounds that it comes from a particular person is

Appeal to the person

Critics of the divine command theory have argued that the theory implies that Gods command is

Arbitrary

The fallacy that is trying to prove a conclusion by using the very same conclusion as support

Begging the question

According to Behe the gradual accumulation of mutations

Cannot Evolve a biological systems

Where usage is consequently, therefore, and as a result are

Conclusion indicator Words

Bebe says that an irreducibly complex biological system would be a powerful challenge to

Darwinian evolution

In the moral life, feelings are

Essential and inevitable

Anselm assumes that a being that exists in reality in greater than a being that

Exists only in the understanding

A good deductive argument is said to be sound

False

A good inductive argument is said to be strong

False

According to Swinburne, the simplicity of a scientific theory is a matter of its having

Few component laws

According to Hick, the divine purpose could not be forwarded in a world that was designed a

Hedonistic paradise

Some design arguments are framed as

Inferences to the best explanation

For Socrates, the soul is harmed by lack of

Knowledge

The four main divisions of philosophy are metaphysics, epistemology, axiology, and...

Logic

The study of correct reasoning is called

Logic

A question-and-answer dialogue in which propositions are methodically scrutinized to uncover

The Socratic method

An argument is not synonymous with persuasion

True

Aquinas thinks that an infinite series of causes is repugnant to reason

True

Aristotle says that virtue is a mean lying between two vices

True

From the fact that cultures have divergent moral beliefs on an issue, it does not logically follow

True

Paley says that if we found a watch and examined it closely, we would naturally infer that

True

Philo declares that this world might have been a faulty product of an inexperience deity

True

Rowe Says that most philosophers who have considered Anselm's argument have rejected it something into existence

True

A moral theory explains

Why an action is right or wrong

Pascal says that if you bet that God exists, and he does in fact exist

You win infinite happiness and lose nothing

Virtues are

Moral states

Aristotle believes that moral virtues can best be acquired through

Practice and habits

In an argument the statement being supported is the conclusion

Premises

According to Hick, a certain amount of evil in the world is

Necessary

An important criterion of adequacy for moral theories is consistency with our conscience

False

Mackie says that religious experience are

Generally indistinguishable from experiences with a known psychological or physical

Aquinas says that the first efficient cause of everything is

God

According to Philo, since the universe is perfectly ordered the existence of deity is likely

False

By the lights of cultural relativism, cross cultural moral disagreement is not possible

False

Cultural relativism implies that moral progress is possible

False

James maintains that the desire for a certain kind of truth can

Bring about the special truths experience

Moral theories that say that the rightness of actions depends solely on their consequences are

Consequentalist

Mill says that the ultimate end of utilitarianism is an existence as free of pain as possible and

Enjoyments

When we arrived at a generalization about an entire group of things after observing just some

Enumerative deduction

For subjectivists, everyone's moral views are

Equally plausible

According to Aristotle, we always desire happiness

For its own sake

Hick believes that such evils as poverty, oppression, and war are

Manifestation of human sin

The study of reality in broadest sense, an inquiry into the elemental nature of the universe

Metaphysics

According to Kant, to say that something exists is to

Not add any additional property to it

Pascal believes that when it comes to the question of Gods existence

Reason can decide nothing

Universal ethnical egoism is the theory that everyone ought always to

Serve his or her own self interest

According to Paley, we must conclude that a watch has an intelligent designer if the watch

Shows purposefulness

The fallacy of misrepresenting a person's views so they can be more easily attacked or dismissed

Strawman fallacy

For Socrates, an unexamined life is a tragedy because it results in grievous harm to

The soul

The key to identify and a argument in context is to first identify the conclusion

True

This classic argument, "The Bible say is that God exists; the bible is true because God wrote it begging the question

True

Cultural relativism and ethical subjectivism imply that nothing is intrinsically

Valuable

Held says that the ethnics of care

Values emotions

The renowned philosopher who lived and worked in the greek city of Alexander in the fifth century

Hypatia


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