Philosophy 201 BYU Study Guide Exam 2024.

Philosophy 201 BYU Study Guide Exam 2024. Nature of God - CORRECT ANSWER The qualities that combine to make up what God is That he is good, That he is omnipotent and omniscient That he created everything that is Original sin - CORRECT ANSWER The fallen state of human nature into which all generations of people are born. This due to Adam and Eve partaking of the fruit Odyssey (Homer) - CORRECT ANSWER Epic poem that chronicles Odysseus' 10 year struggle to return to his throne in Ithaca. Themes: Reason, loyalty, love, heroism, polytheism. Written by homer, uses type scenes and the Homeric formula. Much of the material was oral before it was written down. Homeric formula - CORRECT ANSWER a set of lines that is reoccuring and can be put in as a filler anywhere. Helps maintain the rhythm and allows the poet to have more time for improvisation. Things like "swift-footed Achilles" or "Grey eyed Athena" type scene - CORRECT ANSWER A situation or set of conventions that recurs throughout a work of literature and that therefore produces a set of expectations in the readers when they encounter that situation in a literary text. Glory (kleos) - CORRECT ANSWER related to the word "to hear" and carries the implied meaning of "what others hear about you." Greek heroes earn kleos through accomplishment of great deeds. The origin of evil according to the free will defense - CORRECT ANSWER The will (free will) actively defecting from the good Free Will Defense - CORRECT ANSWER A defense against the problem of evil which suggests that perhaps human freedom is worth the cost of permitting evil