PHIL 101 EXAM 2 JMU YATES
Anselm and Aquinus' proofs ✔✔Not trying to convert anyone
Anselm ✔✔11th century Benedictine monk
Anselm's take on existence ✔✔Self-evident, based on thought, and not looking
to the world
Anselm's take on god ✔✔God is a being that nothing greater can be thought
Greatest = ? ✔✔Real
Kant on ontological proof ✔✔Ontological proof doesn't work because it can't go
from the concept/idea of god to the proof of god
"Reason must leave room for faith" ✔✔Kant
St. Thomas Aquinas ✔✔13th century monk
Scholasticism ✔✔Posing two counter viewpoints that are common, then give
opinions
, The Five Ways - proof for the existence of god ✔✔Motion/change, from nature
of efficient cause, possibility and necessity, gradation found in things, governance
of the world
Telos ✔✔Natural things act for an end goal (Aristotle's final cause)
"Infinite regress" ✔✔Aristotle
Who is a radical empiricist? ✔✔David Hume
Who merges the concept of god and the existence of god? ✔✔Anselm
Who separates the concept of god and the existence of god? ✔✔Kant
Pascal's Wager ✔✔It is better to wager everything on God's existence than to
be a skeptic. Believing results in greater benefits than not believing.
Salvation issue ✔✔If we believe god exists and we are right, we get eternal
reward
Good life issue ✔✔If we live as though god exists, there is no harm in it, we will
still be better people
The book of Psalms ✔✔The way of the righteous
Anselm and Aquinus' proofs ✔✔Not trying to convert anyone
Anselm ✔✔11th century Benedictine monk
Anselm's take on existence ✔✔Self-evident, based on thought, and not looking
to the world
Anselm's take on god ✔✔God is a being that nothing greater can be thought
Greatest = ? ✔✔Real
Kant on ontological proof ✔✔Ontological proof doesn't work because it can't go
from the concept/idea of god to the proof of god
"Reason must leave room for faith" ✔✔Kant
St. Thomas Aquinas ✔✔13th century monk
Scholasticism ✔✔Posing two counter viewpoints that are common, then give
opinions
, The Five Ways - proof for the existence of god ✔✔Motion/change, from nature
of efficient cause, possibility and necessity, gradation found in things, governance
of the world
Telos ✔✔Natural things act for an end goal (Aristotle's final cause)
"Infinite regress" ✔✔Aristotle
Who is a radical empiricist? ✔✔David Hume
Who merges the concept of god and the existence of god? ✔✔Anselm
Who separates the concept of god and the existence of god? ✔✔Kant
Pascal's Wager ✔✔It is better to wager everything on God's existence than to
be a skeptic. Believing results in greater benefits than not believing.
Salvation issue ✔✔If we believe god exists and we are right, we get eternal
reward
Good life issue ✔✔If we live as though god exists, there is no harm in it, we will
still be better people
The book of Psalms ✔✔The way of the righteous
