Concerning God’s relation to the world, Avicenna arrived at the controversial conclusion that
a. the world emanates from God out of rational necessity.
b. God could have created the world differently than he did.
c. From all eternity, God and the world existed in total separation from one another.
d. there is no God, and the world as we know it is the product of natural causes.
a
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Which of the following, according to Kant, is a characteristic of moral maxims and duties?
A. We know them intuitively. B. They are relative and vary from culture to culture. C. They are universally binding. D. Depending on the cultural context, they can be overridden by other duties.
INSTRUCTIONS: In each problem below you are given a statement, its truth value in parentheses, and a new statement. You must determine how the new statement is related to the given statement and determine the truth value of the new statement. Adopt the Aristotelian standpoint and assume that 'A' and 'B' denote things that actually exist. All non-A are B. (F) Some non-A are B
A) Contraposition. (F) B) Subalternation. (F) C) Contradictory. (T) D) Contraposition. (Und.) E) Subalternation. (Und.)
According to Mill, when deciding what to do we should:
c give equal consideration to all concerned. b. consider all concerned but give extra consideration to those closest to us. c. consider all concerned but give extra consideration to ourselves. d. consider only ourselves and those closest to us.
Approximately one out of every ____ persons on earth is a Christian
a. 2 b. 3 c. 4 d. 5 e. 10