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Philosophy Topics Year 1, Realm of the Appearances, Aristotle, Aquinas, D…

- - - - Form of the Good
        
        Beauty
        
        Truth
      - The Forms
        
        Permanent
        
        Unchanging
        
        Non-material
- - - - Purpose
  - - - What brings it about
    - - Immanent shape
    - - What it is made from
- - - - Substance Dualism (Different Substances)
        
        Gilbert Ryle - Category Error
        
        Descartes - Ghost in the Machine
        
        Plato
      - Body and Soul are different
    - - Body and Soul are one
      - Non-materialist monism
        
        Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach
      - Materialism
        
        Richard Dawkins - Biological Creatures
        
        Soul 1
        
        Soul 2
        
        B.F. Skinner - Behaviorism
        
        Daniel C. Dennett - 'Skinner skinned'
- - - - Assumes things in the universe all have purpose
        
        Evolution suggests blind chance
        
        Aristotle Final Cause
    - - Hume
        
        Choice of analogy affects outcome
        
        Epicurean Thesis
        
        Cannot assume cause is greater than effect
      - Dawkins - Blind Evolution
      - Mill - Evil in nature
- - - - God who cannot be thought to exist is greater than one who can be though not to exist
        
        Other necessary beings, like the Sun, can be thought not to exist
        
        Fool speaks without thought and does not understand his own words
    - - God who did not exist, not that than which nothing greater can be thought
        
        There can be no contradiction
        
        Real God greater than imaginary God
    - - Perfect island without existence is not a perfect island
        
        Argument leads to absurd results
        
        Anselm
        
        Argument only applies to God: island contingent
    - - Existence not predicate - adds nothing to the concept
        
        Just asserts in the real world exists something like concept
      - If existence predicate, we can reject concept and its predicates
- - - - Image and Likeness
      - Swinburne - Evil teaches
        
        Epistemic Distance
      - Hick
        
        Universal Salvation
  - - - Free Will
        
        Fall of Angels
        
        Fall of Adam and Eve
      - Punishment for Sin