Philosophy 1022E : Philosophy Review- Apr. 5(2).docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1022E
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Rather, their features can be spread across words, like a family, but there is not one that defines them all: evolution of religion, hunter gatherer polytheistic(cid:224) monotheistic, agricultural, axial age, grounds of religious adherence: religious experience, reason, religious doctrine. April 5th 2012: contingent thing (something that may exist or not exist) & necessary thing (something that can be a possible thing, but not is contingent, possible thing (possible to exist, or exists) & impossible thing, reductio ad absurdum, existence is not a predicate (kant, magician, magico, magician. Aquinas" five ways: god as the first mover, god as the first cause, god as a necessary being, principle of plenitude, gradation, cosmological argument. You should bet on god"s existence because it"s in your best interest, if you don"t than you risk eternal damnation: blaise pascal, rationality of belief, the wager (with bests and possible outcomes, false belief objection, any gods objection, ethics of belief objection.