Exam 4: Plato the Beginning of Everything

Why does Berkeley claim that the ideas of Sense are more strong, lively, and distinct than those of the imagination? Do you agree with Berkeley?

Anselm says, "I do not seek to understand that I may believe, but ..."

At the beginning of the reading, the ship in question was attacked by pirates.

What does Conway mean when she says, "in God there can exist no passion, which to speak properly comes from his creatures: For every passion is something temporal"?

In one of his proofs for the existence of God, Aquinas says, "it is necessary to admit a first cause, to which everyone gives the name of ..."

Anselm says, "Hence, there is no doubt that there exists a being, than which nothing greater can be conceived, and it exists both in the __________ and in _________."

Explain in detail the difference between truths of reasoning and truths of fact.

What does Cleanthes mean in this passage: "Nothing is demonstrable, unless the contrary implies a contradiction"?

Parsons says, "Let's call all of the evils that really exist (in the past, present, or future) sentient evils."

Clifford asserts that, "No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe."

Joyce asserts that "Of man, it is true that the balance is immensely on the side of ________. The pessimist who declares that, in view of the suffering of life, existence is an evil, misrepresents the facts."

Philo says, "Now, according to this method of reasoning, it follows, (and is, indeed, tacitly allowed by Cleanthes himself) that order, arrangement, or the adjustment of final causes is not, of itself, any proof of design; but only so far as it has been experienced to proceed from that principle."

According to Mackie, it is sometimes suggested that "Good cannot exist without evil." But Mackie criticizes this position when he says ...

Why does Clifford emphasize that the question of right or wrong has to do with the origin of a belief? Do you agree with Clifford?

For James, a _____________ is one which appeals as a real possibility to him to whom it is proposed.

According to Mackie, it is sometimes suggested that "Evil is necessary as a means to good." But Mackie criticizes this position when he says, "so that if God has to introduce evil as a means to good, he must be subject to at least some causal laws. This certainly conflicts with what a theist normally means by omnipotence."

According to Mackie, it is sometimes suggested that "Evil is due to human free will." Mackie criticizes this position when he says that this "solution of the problem of evil, then, can be maintained only in the form that God has made men so free that he cannot control their wills."

According to the reading, "the father and maker of all this universe is known through revelation."

Philo says, "If we see a house, Cleanthes, we conclude, with the greatest certainty, that it had an architect or builder, because this is precisely that species of effect, which we have experienced to proceed from that species of cause. But surely you will not affirm, that the universe bears such a resemblance to a house." Philo's point is that ...

Descartes says that, "this necessity is sufficient, as soon as I discover that existence is a __________, to cause me to infer the existence of this first and sovereign being."