Reading
Questions for “Metaphysics” and “Philosophy of Religion”
As
you read the section entitled “Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion,” use
the following questions to guide you. You won’t be asked to turn in your answers
to these questions, but these questions, or questions very similar to them, may
appear on a quiz – and you will be allowed to use your notes, including your
answers to these questions, on the quiz.
1. What is metaphysics?
2. Briefly, what is the Ontological Argument? Is
it more appealing to rationalists or empiricists? Why?
3. Briefly, what is the Teleological Argument? Is
it more appealing to rationalists or empiricists? Why?
4. Briefly, what is the Cosmological Argument? Is
it more appealing to rationalists or empiricists? Why?
5. Briefly, what does the Problem of Evil claim?
6. Briefly, what does Pascal’s Wager claim?