7. How does Boethius use conditional necessity to defend free will?
God sees our action on the condition it is freely chosen
God's knowledge changes on the condition that we act.
God sees our action as a necessary because he has knowledge of it.
God cannot see the future so we are free to choose or not to choose.
8. Which two thinkers argued that absolute power is not a desirable quality?
Anselm and Aquinas
Geach and McQuarrie
Whitehead and Hartshorne
Descartes and Anselm
9. How did Anselm address the problem of God not having the power to lie?
Deception is a weakness so it is not a limit on his power
God is beyond lies and truth it is an irrelevant question
God cannot lie because anything he says becomes truth
God can lie but chooses not to
10. Who said the following?: 'When people have tried to read into 'God can do everything' a signification not of Pious Intention but of Philosophical Truth, they have only landed themselves in intractable problems and hopeless confusions; no graspable sense h
Aquinas
Swinburne
Geach
Descartes
11. According to Swinburne why is it not possible for God to know our future actions?
God has intentionally limited his knowledge
God knows all possibilities but not which one you will choose.
Free choices are by definition open so it is not logically possible for God to know them until we have made them.
God is utterly transcendent and is unconcerned by our actions.
12. What is meant by simple necessity?
Something that just is because it comes from its nature e.g. the sun rising.
Something that has a condition attached to it e.g. as long as someone is walking his feet are moving him forward.
13. Which of the following terms means all-knowing?
Omnibenevolent
Omnipotent
Omniscient
Omnipresent
14. According to Boethius how does time appear to God?
As one future moment.
As one simultaneous present.
As never ending past, present and future.
As one simultaneous past.
15. What is meant by conditional necessity?
Something that has a condition attached to it e.g. as long as someone is walking his feet are moving him forward.
Something that just is because it comes from its nature e.g. the sun rising.
16. Who said the following?: ‘In the same way, we estimate the intimacy between two persons by the foreknowledge one has of the actions of the other, without supposing that in either case, the one or other’s freedom is therefore endangered. So even divine for
Vardy
Swinburne
Schleiermacher
Boethius
17. What is the term given to Anselm's view of God?
The Four-Dimensionalist Approach
The Two-Dimensionalist Approach
The Five-Dimensionalist Approach
The Three-Dimensionalist Approach
18. Which thinker defends the view that of omnipotence that says God limits his own power?
Aquinas
Vardy
Anslem
Descartes
19. In Vardy's view, why is God's omnipotence limited?
He is limited by the universe he chose to create.
He is limited by human understanding.
He is limited by external forces of logic.
He is limited by necessary conditions of Godliness.
20. Which of the following terms means all-loving?
