Ph 200 - Unit 2 Study Guide Questions And Correct Answers

What was Pascal's wager? {Ans: a bet over the existence of God}What was Aquinas' conclusion about Foreordination and Free Will? {Ans: He believes that God moves man to choose but does not determine what he will choose. All men are morally accountable to God for their choices.}Post-conversion, Augustine believed what? {Ans: 1) Stoicism - evil possesses relative existence and evil can be means to a greater good}Metaphysics is... {Ans: The ultimate nature of things (ontology).}How many realms did Descartes believe in? What were they? Also, did he believe that these realms should be joined or divorced from each other? {Ans: Two The Physical (science) Realm and The Non-physical (Religion) Realm. Divorced}Hume is writing against... {Ans: Aquinas. Attempted to disprove his five arguments for God's existence.}