Exam 7: God

The possibility of moral evil follows from

Anselm claims that it is impossible to think that God does not exist without misunderstanding what God is.

If actions are right because God says so, then

Is Paley correct that when one finds a rock, one does not infer that it was designed but that when one finds a watch (or an eye), one must make this inference? Explain.

Is believing in God on the basis of Pascal's argument in any way problematic? Explain.

Do you agree with Gaunilo's criticism of

According to the "many gods" objection, Pascal's wager only makes sense for Christianity.

Faith-based beliefs are, according to Scriven, concerned with almost everything we experience.

Why does James say that the scientific school fails to give enough credence to the role of passions, like prejudice, when we form beliefs based on observations?

What does Blackburn identify as the crucial flaw in Pascal's argument? Do you agree that it is fatal to the argument? Explain.

If actions are right because of God's commands, then "God is good" is meaningless.

Demea claims that the world is like a house.

According to Anselm, the fool must agree that God exists in the mind.

Even the theist believes some things on the basis of reason.

Nagel criticizes the cosmological argument because

Kant's argument for the existence of God is that

What is Pascal's wager an argument for? Do you think that this is an interesting conclusion? Explain.

Explain the "many gods" objection to Pascal's wager.

Cahn believes that morality

Do you think that we lack metaphysical knowledge of God? Explain.