For the Final Exam on Tuesday, May 27 from 12:00-2:00 PM in F-716, you will need to know the following information:
Part I: Fill-in-the-blank: You should know the definitions of the following terms: - Natural Evil
- Moral Evil
- Theodicy
- Eternity
- Infinity
- Scholasticism
- Ontological Argument
- Cosmological Argument
- Teleological Argument
Part II: Short Answer: You should be prepared to answer explain the following concepts: - What characterizes Medieval Philosophy.
- The Problem of Evil.
- The two kinds of evil we discussed.
- The accounts of evil that Augustine considers and his reasons for rejecting or accepting them.
- Augustine's account of Free Will and how it resolves the problem of evil.
- Boethius' account of how we can reconcile chance or randomness with God's Providence.
- Boethius' articulation of the Free Will Problem.
- Boethius' hierarchy of cognitive faculties and how it relates to the problem of free will.
- The distinction between eternity and infinity and how it resolves the problem of free will.
- Anselm's Ontological Argument.
- Anselm's resolution of the burrito paradox.
- Guanilo's two responses to Anselm
- Anslem's response to Guanilo's response.
- The difference between positive and negative theology.
- Maimonides' reasons for thinking that only negative theology is correct.
- Aquinas's objections to the ontological argument.
- Aquinas' five arguments for the existence of God.
- Aquinas' conception of the natural law.
- Aquinas' account of the Supreme Moral Principle
- Aquinas' account of the three sorts of inclinations we possess and the different obligations and duties derived from each.
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