Are you manmade or natural?

Write down as many criticisms of Aquinas’s second Way as you can remember :

Challenges to belief in the existence of God

Challenges to belief in the existence of God

Logical argumentsInconsistencies in the attributes of God

including omnibenevolence v evil

Evidential argumentsThe Problem of EvilMiracles

Challenges to belief in the existence of God

Logical argumentsInconsistencies in the attributes of God

including omnibenevolence v evil

1. God is the all-powerful, wholly good and all-knowing creator of the universe

2. Evil exists in the universe3. A wholly good being eliminates evil as far as it can

Challenges to belief in the existence of God

Evidential argumentsThe Problem of EvilMiracles

read Peter Cole on Evil

Big fan of Aristotle

Homework for Friday

Rethink and rewrite every question which you scored 50% or less on in AU2 – except

the last one.AND

(a) Explain Aquinas’ Second Way in detail. (b) What do you think are the two biggest

criticisms of it? Justify your answer

Homework for MondayComplete reading on theodicies

For Friday : In Our Time Philosophy archive – powerpoint slide+ talk

The Grand InquisitorFyodor Dostoevsky

UtopiaThomas Moore

The Myth of SisyphusAlbert Camus

Why I am so wise?Friedrich Nietzsche

On SuicideDavid Hume

The SymposiumPlato

Sickness unto deathSoren Kierkegaard

The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Concerning ViolenceFrantz Fanon

Homework for Friday Rethink and rewrite every question which

you scored 50% or less on in AU2 – except the

last one.AND

(a) Explain Aquinas’ Second Way in

detail. (b) What do you think

are the two biggest criticisms of it? Justify

your answer

Homework for MondayComplete reading on theodicies

For Friday : In Our Time Philosophy archive – powerpoint slide+ talk

From a dualist point of view – evil is caused by Satan,

good by God. We have the free will to choose which

one.

To a degree.[ is it a binary type of question?]. Pure

freedom – before sanctions impinge on our lives- when

language kicks in.

Who provides freewill? God = all-loving? Is freewill for

the better or for the worse? The only thing that confines

our freewill is society.We are condemned to

freedom – it is not a reward. It is not NICE! Eg jobs get

you money –but at a price

The opposite of being free is being bound. Teaching a

child to lie example. You can what you want, but you

can’t want what you want

Friday period 5Open book review of Philosophy of Religion so far – 5 mark questions on the key positions :

Divine attributes and the paradoxes that come out of themArguments relating to the existence of god :

Ontological – Anselm Design - PaleyCosmological - Aquinas 2nd theodicies – Augustine and Irenaeus

To prepare for this : vocab list – see wikispaces