11 Q's Review

What is the principle of sufficent reason?

• whatever comes into being must have an explanation for its existence

• the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline

• An educated guess about something that comes into exsistence

• whatever comes into being doesn't require a explanation for its existence

What is Cosmology?

• incorporating belief in God into therapy

• the science of the origin and development of the universe

• the study of astrological signs and what they mean to us as humans

• The study of planets and their rotation around the sun

As we learned when discussing logic, the PSR states that whatever comes into being must have an explanation for its existence (including the universe)

• TRUE

• FALSE

What is the book that St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that goes a bit into the argument of change?

• Tractatus Theologico-Politicus

• Summa Theologica

• Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding

• The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

What is the principle of sufficient reason?

• How our mind is better known than our body

• We have free will, enabling us to avoid error by refusing to assent to anything doubtful.

• whatever comes into being must have an explanation for its existence

• The sense in which knowledge of everything else depends on knowledge of God

Who was one of the first philosophers to a CA

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• Descartes

• Hume

• Aristotle

True or False: The First cause argument is...

Things that DO exist by nature must be caused to exist by something that

does exist by nature, The universe ISN'T a thing that exists by nature, Therefore, the universe must be caused to exist by something that does  

        exist by nature: namely, God. 

• True

• False

What is the one objection to the First cause argument?

• Existence was invented by people

• Existence doesn't need to be caused

• Existence does need to be caused

• Existence was created before the prime mover

True or False: Summa Theologica says that

We DON'T observe things in motion or undergoing change. 

• True

• False

True or False: Cosmological Arguments Attempt to explain the reason for the existence of the universe

• True

• False