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Philosophy 6-8

Philosophy Test 2

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According to the text, Death is evil because: It deprives us of conscious experience of the good things of life.
The chief benefit of the thought of our death is: It helps us concentrate the mind
According to the Stoics, the most important thing in life is To transform the mundane into the sublime.
It is rational to fear an object only if: the fear is instrumental in causing behavior which will allow you to avoid the object.
Epicurus affirms that we should: give up non-natural non-necessary desiress, be prudent with natural non-necessary desires, and enjoy natural necessary desires.
The Stoics affirm that merely living is not a good, but that living well is. True
Epictetus affirms that describing things as they are helps us not to be overly attached to them True
According to Epicurus, death is "nothing to us" because: so long as we exist, death is not with us, but when death comes we do not exist
For the Stoics, having pleasure is the only thing that gives life meaning False
Pojman thinks that there is no important difference between having an aversion towards death and being afraid of death False
The cosmological argument attempts to answer which one of the following questions? Why is there a universe at all?
The argument from contingency differs from the First Cause argument because it introduces the notion of a necessary being.
Which of the following is a premise of the First Cause argument given in the text? Nothing can be the cause of itself.
According to your text, the argument from contingency can be accused of committing which fallacy? the fallacy of composition
The cosmological argument is primarily concerned with the fact that the universe is contingent.
A criticism of the First Cause argument given in your text is . it is possible the uncaused cause is matter itself. there could be many uncaused causes. it does not demonstrate that the First Cause is benevolent.
According to your text, the argument from contingency has which advantage over the First Cause argument? it demonstrates that God must still exist to support everything else.
A version of the First Cause argument was defended by St. Thomas Aquinas
An a posteriori argument is an argument that is based on premises that can be known only by means of experience of the world
A contingent being is: one which depends on something else for its existence.
The major problem with religious experience mentioned in your text is that it is typically private and, so, hard for others to verify
The weak justification position claims that the evidence from religious experience is sufficient evidence for the one who has had the experience, but not for others.
Concerning the proposition that God is perfectly good, the text said that all the major religions--Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity--agree on this point
According to your text, natural evil consists of terrible events such as tornados that are produced by nature
Which statement best characterizes John Hick’s position? Even an all-powerful God could not make free persons into ready-made, perfected moral agents.
Gary Gutting claims that a sign of genuine religious experiences is that they A. are repeatable. B. experienced by many people in diverse cultures. C. produce morally better lives.
An important fact noted in the text is that when the religious experiences of Christians and Hindus are compared, we find that each person has experiences that tend to conform to his or her unique religious tradition.
The text criticizes the free-will defense by suggesting that God could have allowed some character-building suffering, but did not need to allow the excessive amounts we face.
Which of the following claims is assumed by the free-will defense? A. Humans have the freedom to choose between good and evil. B. God considers a world with free will and suffering better than one that lacked free will. C. There are some things that it is logically impossible for an all-powerful God to do.
The sort of religious experience that posits the unity of all reality or the unity of the subject with God is known as mystical religious experience
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