Chapter 2 Self-Quiz

Religion
. Kant argued that the existence of a thing can be a matter of logic.

. Three major sets of "proofs" have emerged as attempts to demonstrate God's existence. They are called (1) the ontological argument, (2) the cosmological argument, and (3) the teleological argument.

. The God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam lacks any anthropomotphic qualities, His emotions are purley God like and reflect nothing of human undersranding.

. Aquinas admitted that there was no valid argument against the claim that God and the universe existed for all eternity.

. In Buddhism, the problem of evil is avoided entirely because Buddhism abandons any conception of an anthropomorphic God.

. Friedrich Schleiermacher insisted that religion was simply a matter of intense feelings of dependence, nothing more.

. Tillich expanded the idea of God to represent a meaningless existence.

. Voltaire was a deist.

. Kant argued that existence was just a predicate like other predicates.

. Buddhism responds to the problem of evil with the idea of compassion.

. __________ argued that objective faith means a sum of dogmas.

. Friedrich Nietzsche thought that Christianity was an expression of everything that is __________ in human nature.

. Kant argued that the belief in God was __________.

. The __________ argument attests that God contains all possible perfection and existence is perfect; therefore, God exists.

. Anthropomorphism is the idea that God is a lot like __________.

. In John Wisdom's metaphor about the beautiful garden, the gardener symbolizes __________.

. Which type of people did Albert Einstein say "develop a completely false notion of the mentality of men who, surrounded by a skeptical world, have shown the way to kindred spirits scattered wide through the world for centuries"?

. In Kant's view, God cannot be the object of any possible experience because He possesses which quality?

. Plato and Aristotle heavily influenced __________.

. Pascal's wager is in favor of __________.

. The third "proof" of God's existence is usually called the argument from design, or ___________________.

. Taken at face value, the first three versions of the cosmological argument are similar to _________ argument for the "prime mover."

. William Paley argued primarily from the idea of the ____________, which attributes purpose to the creation of the world.

. The argument from design, known as intelligent design, has the form of an _______.

. _______ is St. Thomas Aquinas's first argument for the existence of God.

. According to Kant and others, the importance of God in Western thought is His role as the source of our __________.

. The __________, "Song of God" (ca. 200 BCE), is the most important of the many Hindu sacred texts.

. To step outside ourselves, to consider the world from an impersonal perspective, called "personal nihility" by __________, is an intimate and unique activity.

. __________ said that belief in God was a matter of faith. But this was not an irrational belief. On the contrary, he insisted that the belief in God was the most rational belief of all.

. __________ made the pragmatic argument that believing in God was "rational" insofar as it didn't conflict with our other beliefs and it tended to make us lead better lives.

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