Implications: Quiz
Ayer
Part a)
1. Outline the verification principle by Ayer, and weak and strong verification:
2. Outline the falsification principle and how it relates to the article:
3. Why is religious language meaningless?
4. What does Kant argue against for the ontological argument?
5. Why is agnosticism and atheism rejected on the grounds of Ayer’s belief?
6. What synoptic links are there to the failures of atheism and agnosticism, name 2:
7. Which scholar would state that Ayer is wrong if he states that thunder cannot be compared to God, the scholar’s name begins with ‘W’?
8. What might Freud suggest about comparing God to thunder?
9. Ayer states that religious feelings are nonsense, however, which two philosophers would disagree with this, beginning with ‘O’ and ‘W’?
10. What process increases the likelihood of such religious dogmas being passed on through the generation, think of the internet’s favourite pass time.
11. Why is the mystic concerned with religious feelings, synoptic link to Donovan’s article?
12. Who rebuttals Ayer’s verification principle with verification of his own?
13. Religious language is meaningful because it has some function in society – (‘D’)?
14. The mystic is able wrong because they talk of ‘indirect information about the condition of his own mind’, who would disagree with this, with the idea of certain ‘games’?
15. How do we experience others through intuition, or the mystic’s conviction, think of Donovan:
Implications
1. If all religious language is meaningless what effect does this have on the scriptures?
2. Who states that religious language can be meaningful, in the sense that it aids how we should lead our lives, initials: R.B.B?
3. What does this mean for those who have had NDE’s or religious experiences?
4. Implications on human understanding, the afterlife?
5. If religious language is meaningful, Paul Tillich states that it becomes an ‘ultimate concern’, talk of the afterlife?
6. Christianity, or religious language is able to have meaning, through eschatological verification
7. Religion is meaningless, and only a human concept passed on by what manner, Dawkins’ idea
8. Implications on human law, Natural Moral Law uses religious language, and so do the laws of the land: Decalogue
9. Do the feelings that we have become pointless, use a scholar to support this point.
10. Implications of the justice system,
11. Influence on science
12. Idea of hick’s filter glasses and how it contributes to Ayer?
13. Meaningful religious experiences and good implications?
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Westphal
Part a)
1. What does Westphal describe to be the ‘sea change’?
2. Describe the differences between philosophical theology and philosophy of religion:
3. Give two examples of scholastic and then deist scholars?
4. What does Hegel make of philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion?
5. The distinctions between the scholastic and deistic project:
6. Why was there a need for the emergence of the deistic project?
7. Which scholar is most important for the just war theory, thus supporting religious warfare, something the deist project wanted to avoid?
8. The deist project was paramount during which time period?
9. Deist project is upheld by three key enlightenment motifs, what are they?
10. Give the critiques of the ontological, cosmological and teleological arguments from Kant and Hume:
11. What are the three books that Kant wrote:
12. Are there ways to know God through a priori
13. Synoptic link between Kant’s book ‘Limits of Reason Alone’ (radical evil) with which scholastic scholar
14. What did Kant replace the kernel of religion with:
15. Do Aquinas and Anselm agree that God is a means to an end?
16. How would Hume react to this? Is God really a means to an end?
17. All things that are considered metaphysical are instead replaced and demythologised – Jesus becomes what type of archetype:
18. What is fetish faith?
19. Jesus has become a symbol, who would disagree with this (‘A’), and who comments that symbols are good (‘P.T’)
20. Why is Schleiermacher not a proper deist?
21. What type person was Schleiermacher, think of love
22. Which two philosophers also emphasised on the idea of love?
23. What does Schleiermacher think of dogma and fetish faith?
24. What was Schleiermacher’s kernel of religion?
25. How does Hegel describe Kant and Hume?
26. What does Hegel want to unite?
27. What does philosophy stand for and what does religion stand for?
28. Kant vs Hegel, go?
29. Talk about sensory images, what sort of these can be found in historical narratives, which philosophers talk about sensory images?
30. Compare Hegel vs Schleiermacher
31. What is Hegel’s highest category …. Or nature?
32. Lessing, what does he say?
33. Kant thought reason could determine between the f… and the E…
34. Religion is able to elevate the human spirit?
35. Hume was … what of religion
36. Selfish hopes, synoptic link to Kant, what type of hope?
37. Dawkins’ muddying the waters
38. Go through Nietzsche and Marx
39. And Kierkegaard
Implications
1. Hume: for religion –abandon all of God, but if this happens then what are the repercussions?
2. Hume: For morality – abandonment of God, means that what are the repercussions?
3. Why is deism a stronger argument than scholasticism?
4. What do we lose if deism based on reason becomes a stronger factor for religion than spirituality?
5. Who would have disagreed that we lose our religious identity if we use Kant’s form of deism?
6. Is religion still important today because of faith, revelation and authority or reason and the list as distinct entities.
7. Why is deism more approved of in opposition to scholasticism in the context of conflict and religious warfare?
8. Kant and the implications for morality, able to be universalised but is the idea of morality being a duty more of a criticism than a strength?
9. Justice system and the relation to the implications of morality?
10. Is Hume too suspicious and talk of psychological interpretations of this argument?
11. Does all of religion have to be demythologised (Lessing), for Hegel to be approvable?
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Donovan
part a)
1. What does intuition mean?
2. What are religious experiences?
3. Give two people who believe that we can have a religious feeling of being certain of something:
4. H. P. Owen comments that we can know God through what four aspects?
5. Donovan states that mediated immediacy can be revealed through finite experiences, what two scholars talk about these types of experiences?
6. In what way is Owen’s argument for religious experiences complementary with the scriptural writings of the bible?
7. What scholar thinks that such religious experiences are meaningless?
8. But it may be meaningful to the individual according to who -> beginning with [‘M’]
9. Subjective religious interpretations - Wittgenstein
10. Russell, and how he can be applied to Donovan?
11. Feeling certain, being right: why is that we may feel that we are right? – some sort of wish fulfilment? Beginning with ‘F’ who talks about this?
12. Coloured lenses and filters, who would also talk about this beginning with [H]
13. What two principles suggests that we should listen to these testimonies and that surely if there are so many that religious experience should not be so quickly discredited?
14. Religious diversity means that we all have a different intuition; does this then mean that we cannot ever be certain if we’re right?
15. Buber: ‘I-You and I-it’ relationships, cannot be put into words, who also said something on similar lines to this?
16. Personal relationships -> what mystics can you talk about, or use another scholar?
17. What criticisms can be used -> anthropomorphism?
18. Bible: Old Testament God, how does he fit with the classical God of theism?
19. What does it mean if God can be proven by religious experience? Tillich: ultimate concern
20. Three main criticisms: - Russell can be mistaken, believer is always convinced that they are correct by Flew
21. Hardy Research Centre
22. Idea of the bible -> Factual relationship is still notable and important but why?
23. Why is second hand knowledge more important in some cases than first hand experiences?
Implications
- If our intuition is wrong what does this mean for all religious experiences, do they become meaningless?
- What are these psychological phenomenas called religious experiences, what psychological interpretations are there to explain them?
- Who could combat the idea of different intuitions, think Narnia?
- If we accept Donovan’s argument for religious experiences this means that there is a possibility of God - LaD -> Tillich
- Implications of human experience, if only a small number of people are able to participate in religious experiences?
- What if religious experiences are true, then what on the other end?
- Religious experiences as a delusion, such as NDE’s -> who states that it could be a result of delusions and etc? [‘R. M’]
- If we do become more secular what is society at risk of?
- Good of humanity, Theresa of Avila had a positive experience-> not all bad
- Ayer’s verification unable to be what?
- This can be argued against by name three scholars: [think rabbits, ’S’, Bible, ‘O’]
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