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 ¼ - 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