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Created by Lilli Flahh
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| Question | Answer |
| Divine attributes (name 6) | omnipotence, benevolence, omniscience, everlasting, eternal, immutability |
| Omnipotence (include 2 varients) | Infinitely powerful; (1) can do anything that He wills, or (2) can do anything that is logically possible |
| Omniscience | Knowing all things, having no beliefs that are false |
| Benevolence | Supreme goodness, can do nothing which is morally bad & is the absolute standard for judging what is good |
| Eternal | Timeless, existing outside of time itself and viewing all events as simultaneously present in one view |
| Everlasting | Existing within time and at all times, there is no time in which He does not exist |
| Immutability | Not subject to change |
| State the paradox of the stone | Is God able to create a stone which he cannot lift? |
| State the Euthyphro question | Is what is pious loved by the Gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the Gods? |
| Free will (according to Hume) | The ability to act differently in the exact same situation |
| Evil | Morally wrong, unjust or unfair |
| Moral evil | Evil that occurs as a direct result of the freely chosen actions of human beings |
| Natural evil | Evil that occurs as a result of the malfunctioning operations of the natural world |
| Logical problem of evil: inconsistent triad (J L Mackie - 3 things) | God is omnipotent, god is benevolent, evil exists in the world |
| Evidential problem of evil: 3 factors of evil to consider | Intensity, distribution & duration |
| Mackie's logical dichotomy | The free will defence makes a logical leap from human freedom to the inevitability of evil |
| Why did God not create perfect humans from the outset? | It would not have been possible (1); it would not have been desirable (2) |
| 5 responses to Hick's soul making theodicy | Not all evil is soul making, extent of evil, distribution of evil, pointless pilgrimage, natural evil |
| Logical positivism (Ayer) | A claim is meaningful if we are able to imagine what empirical evidence would prove it true |
| Flew's falsification principle | A claim is meaningful if we are able to imagine what empirical evidence would prove it false |
| Bliks, according to Hare | Unfalsifiable convictions, ie convictions unaffected by empirical evidence to the contrary, which affect a person's attitudes and/or behaviours |
| Eschatologically verifiable | Verifiable after death |
| Cognitive | Attempting to convey facts; truth evaluable |
| Language game (Wittgenstein) | Ways of talking, some cognitive and some non-cognitive |
| Functions of religious language according to Wittgenstein (name 3) | (1) sustaining and shaping the religious form of life, (2) expressing attitudes and commitments, (3) prescribing ways of living |
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