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What did Anselm believe about proving God's existence? |
| | A) | You could do it using just the concept of God as the greatest being conceivable. |
| | B) | God's existence follows from his definition in just the way that the existence of the most perfect island follows from its definition. |
| | C) | If you want to prove God's existence, you must first look at how the world is. |
| | D) | The existence of God can only be known by mystical experience. |
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St. Thomas Aquinas's first three ways are all versions of which sort of argument? |
| | A) | Ontological |
| | B) | Cosmological |
| | C) | Teleological |
| | D) | Moral |
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How did mystical experience compare with reason as a source of knowledge about God, according to Julian of Norwich? |
| | A) | It is a better source than reason. |
| | B) | It is as valid a source of knowledge as reason is. |
| | C) | It is a worse source than reason. |
| | D) | It is not a source of knowledge at all. |
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Given his epistemological standards, what characteristic must all of Descartes arguments for God possess? |
| | A) | They must be based on sensory experience. |
| | B) | They must be capable of being doubted. |
| | C) | They must yield conclusions that are absolutely certain. |
| | D) | They must assume that there is an evil demon. |
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According to Leibniz, what is the sufficient reason for the changing of the seasons? |
| | A) | The earth's direction of rotation. |
| | B) | The angle at which the earth's axis is tilted relative to the sun. |
| | C) | Monads. |
| | D) | God. |
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Given his epistemological standards, what characteristic would Hume insist that any argument for God possess? |
| | A) | It must be based on sensory experience. |
| | B) | It must assume the existence of genuine cause/effect relationships. |
| | C) | It must yield conclusions that are absolutely certain. |
| | D) | It must be based on miracles and mystical experience. |
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Why didn't Immanuel Kant think that existence is a property or characteristic of a thing? |
| | A) | Ah, but he did! |
| | B) | The existence of a thing is not the same as its essence. |
| | C) | In order for existence to be a property, it would have to be something physical, which it isn't. |
| | D) | A characteristic always adds something to the concept of a thing, but existence does not do this. |
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What kind of an argument did Kant use to justify the rationality of belief in God? |
| | A) | Ontological |
| | B) | Cosmological |
| | C) | Teleological |
| | D) | Moral |
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What is truth, for Soren Kierkegaard? |
| | A) | What you believe if it is objectively certain. |
| | B) | How you live if it is with passionate commitment. |
| | C) | Where you end up if you keep using the dialectical method. |
| | D) | What you are if you are a virtuous person. |
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What would Mary Daly say about the image of God the Father? |
| | A) | It is an image that appropriately expresses the power and awe of god. |
| | B) | It is an image that needs to be replaced with the image of God the Mother. |
| | C) | It perpetuates the polarization of human qualities built into the traditional sexual stereotypes. |
| | D) | It is an image that only has negative effects among less sophisticated thinkers. |
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