Philosophy (from memory)
- Created by: ewitor20
- Created on: 12-05-14 10:01
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- What I remember from yesterday's philosophy revision:
- The Ontological Argument
- St Anselm became archbishop of Canterbury in the 10th century
- 'Ontological' - aims to look at the existence of God
- Anselm didn't set out to prove God's existence, but simply state the fact that he exists
- Based fully on reason - there is no empirical evidence of God's existence, which means this argument is a priori
- Gaunilo, a monk who lived in the same period as Anselm, opposed this view - we can't go from having an idea to making false assumptions - we need facts.. a posteriori?
- The 'perfect island' analogy
- Descartes said that God is an ultimately perfect being
- The 'triangle analogy'
- God possesses predicates, such as existence
- Kant - existence is not a predicate
- God possesses predicates, such as existence
- The 'triangle analogy'
- God is "than which nothing greater can be conceived"
- God is a necessary being
- The three steps
- God must exist in the mind and in reality
- God is 'good'
- The euthyphro dilemma
- The 4 Os
- Easily angered - a jealous God?
- The covenant with the Israelites
- What makes an action good? - Socrates
- The 10 commandments
- Moral and natural suffering
- Healing in Exodus
- Abraham and Job
- The Allegory of the Cave
- Cave = world of appearances
- The Ontological Argument
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