PHILOS 2860 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: R&S Records, Social Group, Divine Command Theory
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Mengyun gu sun feb 18 19:29:30 pst 2018. What is a de nition? a set of individually necessary and jointly suf cient conditions. The belief in an ever-living god, that is, in a divine mind and will ruling the universe and holding moral relations with mankind. Problems -- it doesn"t have to be there"s only one god. - it is not necessary to believe in the existence of one single personal deity. The recognition that all things are manifestations of a power which transcends our knowledge. Problem -- it is not suf cient that one recognizes a power that transcends our knowledge ex. The ethics heightened, enkindled, lit up by feeling. An emotion resting on a conviction of a harmony between ourselves and the universe at large. A man"s religion is the expression of his attitude to the universe, the summed-up meaning and purport of his whole consciousness of things.