Philosophy - Religious Language as Analogical

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  • Created on: 18-11-19 18:10

1. Which of the following is a weakness of Aquinas' religious language as analogical?

  • Aquinas provides the counter - argument of evil being a privation of good in response to criticism of analogy of attribution
  • It is cognitive so is meaningful
  • One must have prior knowledge of God to use/ create an analogy
  • It allows for consideration of experience beyond words
  • It avoids anthropomorphism
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2. Which of the following is an example of an 'upwards' analogy?

  • Human power compared to an ant's power
  • Human faithfulness compared to God's faithfulness
  • Human faithfulness compared to dog's faithfulness

3. Hick gave the example of a dog's faithfulness versus a human's faithfulness to illustrate analogy of attribution

  • True
  • False

4. Why does Aquinas argue one cannot use univocal language when speaking of God?

  • Because people might interpret what is meant by it wrong
  • Because it is anthropomorphism
  • Because it doesn't say anything meaningful about God

5. Who argued for religious language as analogical?

  • Wittgenstein
  • Tillich
  • Aquinas
  • Hick
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