PHIL 347 Final Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers Graded A+
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PHIL 347 Final Exam Questions With 100% Verified Answers Graded A+
What is Mackie's argument from Evil?
1. Omnipotent God exists
2. Omnibenevolent God exists
3. Evil exists
What is Plantinga's aim of his free will defence
To show that Mackie's premises are consistent
How can you show...
PHIL 347 Final Exam Questions With 100%
Verified Answers Graded A+
What is Mackie's argument from Evil?
1. Omnipotent God exists
2. Omnibenevolent God exists
3. Evil exists
What is Plantinga's aim of his free will defence
To show that Mackie's premises are consistent
How can you show that a set is consistent? (P,Q,R)
You need a proposition S that is consistent with P & Q and in conjunction with P & Q implies R
What is Plantinga's S term to for Mackie's argument to show consistency?
God creates a world with as much good as this world and possibly every possible person suffers from
transworld depravity
Plantinga's definition of transworld depravity
A person P suffers from transworld depravity if and only of every world W in which P is free and
always does what is right there is a state of affairs T and action A such that God strongly actualizes T in
W, A is a moral action for P and if God had strongly actualized T, P would have gone wrong with
respect to A
Notion of freedom in AP's Free will defence
- Freedom is incompatible with determinism
- If P does A freely then it has not been compelled, and vice versa
- Agent causation
What is agent causation
To cause actions without being compelled to cause them
Moral value in AP free will defence
- In order for an action to count as morally good, it must be a free action
- Moral goodness and badness suppose freedom
How does God create a world with moral goodness and badness?
He must create free beings or agents who act freely
What parts of the world can God actualize?
God can strongly actualize all the states of affaires that don't involve free agency
God can weakly actualize part of a world that involves free actions
When does a person suffer from transworld depravity?
A person suffers from transworld depravity if no matter what state of affairs God actualized, there will
always be at least one action with respect to which you go wrong
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