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Philosophy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| __ and ___ had a famous disagreement concerning the nature of space and time | Newton and Leibniz |
| Plato was the first great systematic | metaphysican |
| who is a radical determinist, but he assures us that we can, with heroic effort, understand the nature of this determinism and accept it gracefully | spinoza |
| leibni's ___ can be created or destoryed but not by any 'natural' means | monads |
| one implication of ___ is that it serves as principle of divine ethics | the principle of sufficient reason |
| at the center of Descartes metaphysics is aristotl's conception of | substance |
| among the most important teachings of __ came the Four noble truths | Buddha |
| who claimed that the essential feature of religious belief is a certian 'attitude' that the religious persons has toward his or her surroundings | john wisdom |
| the credibility of __ has also suffered from the shock of Darwin's theory of evolution | the arguement of design |
| according to Kant and others, the importance of God in western thought is his role as the source of our | moral laws |
| the problem of evil and the seeming irrationality of god's actions also haunted the russion novist ____. his character ivan presented us with a vivid picture of how instances of unjust evil pit reason against faith | fyodor dostoyevsky |
| the ___ 'song of god' is the most important of the many hindu sacred texts | bhagavadigita |
| to step outside oursleves, to consider the world from an impersonal perspective, called 'personal nihility' by ___ is an intimate and unique activity | keiji nishitani |
| the eccentric danish philospher ___ was a very influential, new, subjective christian, often claimed as the father of both the 'new' christianity and the philosphy called existentialism | soren kierkegaard |
| who said that belieft in god is a matter of faith. but this is not an irrational belief. on the contrary, he insisted that the belief in god is the most rational beliefe of all | Immanuel kant |
| who admits that we can't know wheter god exists or not but if God does exists and we believe in him, we are entitiled to eternal reward | blaise pascal |
| who makes the pragmatic argument that believing in god is 'rational' insofar as it doesnt confict with our other beliefs and it tends to make us lead better lives | william james |
| the third 'proof' of god's existence is uaully called the argument from design, or | teleological design |
| according to ____ it is rational to have faith, the beliefe in god is a 'postulate of practical reason' | immanuel kant |
| taken at face value, the first three versions of the csomological arument are similar to ____'s argument for the 'prime mover' | aristotle |
| william paley argues primarily from the idea of ___ which attributes purpose to the creation of the world | natural theory (teleogical argument) |
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