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Title: PHIL223 Final Exam Review
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PHIL223 Final Exam Review
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Exam Structure
- 21 Multiple Choice (1 mark each)
- 3 Short Answer Questions from choice of 5 (3
marks each) - 1 Essay Question chosen from 5 options chosen
at random from following list of (you must not
choose any you have already written on worth 10
marks) - Consider one of the traditional arguments for
God's existence. Does it succeed in proving
God's existence? - Are proof and reason relevant to religious faith?
- Is God just a psychological projection of the
human mind? - Does the existence of evil disprove the existence
of God? - Can a rational person accept the reality of
miracle reports? - Does morality require the existence of God?
- Can it make sense to say that all the great world
religions are right?
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Before Quiz
- Only ΒΌ - 1/3rd of multiple choice and short
answer questions on material from before Quiz - Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics
- Basic components of Arguments and any fallacies
and rules of logic mentioned - The Axial Age Religions
- Details of World Religions (only details
mentioned in text and lectures)
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After Quiz
- Evidence for Fine Tuning and its Implications for
the Teleological Argument - Main Views on the Relevance of Reason for Faith
- Kierkegaard's Arguments that Natural Theology is
Irrelevant to faith - Freuds Projection Theory of Religion Main
Objections to this Theory (http//www.theonion.com
/video/scientists-successfully-teach-gorilla-it-wi
ll-die,17165/) - The Religious Problem of Evil
- Theodicy, Natural Evil, Moral Evil
- The Free Will Defence
- Irenaean Theodicy
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After Quiz
- Definitions of Miracle (Lewis, Hume,
Polkinghorne) - Intervention, Natural Contingency Miracles
- Humes Objections to Miracles
- Objections to Hume
- J.L Mackies Objection to the Free Will Defence
- Classical Scientific View
- The New Physics (Quantum Mechanics)
- Objections to Polkinghornes defense of Miracle
- Main theories of ethics major objections
- The Mutual-Opposition View, Exclusivism,
Inclusivism, Pluralism
