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OCR A-Level Religious Studies Component 01 Philosophy of Religion overview quiz quiz

16questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. In Plato's Theory of Forms, what sits at the top of the hierarchy as the source of all other Forms and of knowledge?

  2. What does Aristotle call the cause that is a thing's purpose or goal?

  3. On Descartes's substance dualism, the mind is best described as

  4. What is the central objection to Descartes's dualism known as?

  5. Whose watch analogy argues that purpose-built parts imply a designer?

  6. How does Russell respond to the cosmological argument in his 1948 debate with Copleston?

  7. What is Kant's main objection to the ontological argument?

  8. How does Anselm define God in his ontological argument?

  9. What are William James's four marks of a mystical experience?

  10. Which two principles does Swinburne use to make religious experience evidence for God?

  11. What does Mackie's logical problem of evil claim?

  12. Which theodicy holds the world is a 'vale of soul-making' at an epistemic distance from God?

  13. On the timeless view of eternity (Boethius), how does God know future free actions?

  14. On Aquinas's analogy of attribution, why is it true that 'God is good'?

  15. According to Ayer's verification principle, religious statements are

  16. In the falsification debate, what does Hare call a non-cognitive but meaningful way of seeing the world?