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The Phenomenological Reduction and the Problem of God

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the phenomenological reduction?

  1. A method of bracketing out all presuppositions and assumptions about the world.
  2. A method of focusing on the essential features of experience.
  3. A method of reducing experience to its simplest elements.
  4. All of the above.
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the transcendental ego?

  1. The pure consciousness that is the foundation of all experience.
  2. The self that is aware of its own thoughts and experiences.
  3. The subject that is opposed to the object.
  4. None of the above.
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the problem of God?

  1. The problem of how to reconcile the existence of God with the existence of evil.
  2. The problem of how to prove the existence of God.
  3. The problem of how to understand the nature of God.
  4. All of the above.
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How does the phenomenological reduction help us to understand the problem of God?

  1. It allows us to bracket out all presuppositions and assumptions about God.
  2. It allows us to focus on the essential features of the experience of God.
  3. It allows us to reduce the experience of God to its simplest elements.
  4. All of the above.
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the transcendental argument for the existence of God?

  1. An argument that starts from the existence of the transcendental ego and argues for the existence of God.
  2. An argument that starts from the existence of the world and argues for the existence of God.
  3. An argument that starts from the existence of evil and argues for the existence of God.
  4. None of the above.
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the ontological argument for the existence of God?

  1. An argument that starts from the concept of God and argues for the existence of God.
  2. An argument that starts from the existence of the world and argues for the existence of God.
  3. An argument that starts from the existence of evil and argues for the existence of God.
  4. None of the above.
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the cosmological argument for the existence of God?

  1. An argument that starts from the existence of the world and argues for the existence of God.
  2. An argument that starts from the concept of God and argues for the existence of God.
  3. An argument that starts from the existence of evil and argues for the existence of God.
  4. None of the above.
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the teleological argument for the existence of God?

  1. An argument that starts from the existence of evil and argues for the existence of God.
  2. An argument that starts from the concept of God and argues for the existence of God.
  3. An argument that starts from the existence of the world and argues for the existence of God.
  4. None of the above.
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the problem of evil?

  1. The problem of how to reconcile the existence of God with the existence of evil.
  2. The problem of how to prove the existence of God.
  3. The problem of how to understand the nature of God.
  4. None of the above.
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the free will defense to the problem of evil?

  1. The defense that says that God created humans with free will, and that humans are responsible for the evil that they do.
  2. The defense that says that God is not responsible for the evil that happens in the world, because he is not the creator of the world.
  3. The defense that says that evil is necessary for the existence of good.
  4. None of the above.
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the evidential argument from evil?

  1. The argument that says that the existence of evil is evidence against the existence of God.
  2. The argument that says that the existence of evil is evidence for the existence of God.
  3. The argument that says that the existence of evil is irrelevant to the question of whether or not God exists.
  4. None of the above.
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the hiddenness argument from evil?

  1. The argument that says that the fact that God is hidden from us is evidence against the existence of God.
  2. The argument that says that the fact that God is hidden from us is evidence for the existence of God.
  3. The argument that says that the fact that God is hidden from us is irrelevant to the question of whether or not God exists.
  4. None of the above.
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the problem of divine hiddenness?

  1. The problem of how to reconcile the existence of God with the fact that he is hidden from us.
  2. The problem of how to prove the existence of God.
  3. The problem of how to understand the nature of God.
  4. None of the above.
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the free will theodicy?

  1. The theodicy that says that God created humans with free will, and that humans are responsible for the evil that they do.
  2. The theodicy that says that God is not responsible for the evil that happens in the world, because he is not the creator of the world.
  3. The theodicy that says that evil is necessary for the existence of good.
  4. None of the above.
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the soul-making theodicy?

  1. The theodicy that says that evil is necessary for the development of the soul.
  2. The theodicy that says that God is not responsible for the evil that happens in the world, because he is not the creator of the world.
  3. The theodicy that says that evil is necessary for the existence of good.
  4. None of the above.
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