Question 1

How do yin and yang work together in Taoism?

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Question 2

Compare how Buddhism or Hinduism understands human behavior and misbehavior to the way Judaism and Christianity understand them.
I. Explain the Hindu concepts of reincarnation and karma or the Buddhist paths to enlightenment and nirvana.
II. Explain the concepts of punishments in this world and the afterlife from Judaism and Christianity.

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Question 3

Describe how agnosticism and atheism challenge the certainty of religion.
I. Describe agnosticism's appeal to the unknowable nature of reality.
II. Describe both informal and formal responses to belief in divinity and the pragmatist response.

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Question 4

Compare how the Book of Job handles the problem of suffering and evil with the way the Christian philosopher Augustine does.
I. Explain Job as experiencing undeserved misfortune at the hands of a mysterious God.
II. Explain Augustine's concept of free will and of predestination as ways of understanding the nature of God.

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Question 5

What is materialism?

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Question 6

What is syncretism?

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Question 7

What is pragmatism?

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Question 8

How does Aquinas's argument for the existence of God take up the problem of the unmoved mover introduced by Aristotle?
I. Explain the problem of causation in Aristotle.
II. Describe how Aquinas's five tenets for the existence of God respond to this problem.

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Question 9

What is predestination?

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Question 10

Compare how the polytheism of the Greeks compares to that of the Egyptians and Hindu religion. Discuss the Greek gods' and goddesses' role in nature and human lives. Discuss similarities to the Egyptian system, including the idea of rulers as gods. Finally, discuss the roles of Diyaus Pita, Privithi, Indra, and Varuna in human lives.
I. For the Greeks, the importance lies in the intervention of deities in the lives of humans and in the gods' limits in doing so. Individual gods were mythically responsible of specific aspects of human lives.
II. For the Egyptians, rulers were intermediaries between gods and humans. Rulers themselves were considered divine. Out of this divinity whole cultures and civilizations emerged.
III. The divinities of Hinduism are far less involved in the lives of humans. They represented forces of creativity, destruction, and preservation. The continuous balancing of these forces leads to the central idea that life is in constant change or fluctuation.

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Quiz 10: Religion

How do yin and yang work together in Taoism?

Describe how agnosticism and atheism challenge the certainty of religion. I. Describe agnosticism's appeal to the unknowable nature of reality. II. Describe both informal and formal responses to belief in divinity and the pragmatist response.

What is materialism?

What is syncretism?

What is pragmatism?

How does Aquinas's argument for the existence of God take up the problem of the unmoved mover introduced by Aristotle? I. Explain the problem of causation in Aristotle. II. Describe how Aquinas's five tenets for the existence of God respond to this problem.

What is predestination?