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What does Trigg say about the Enlightenment and scientism replacing religion - Answer-He says that there is no evidence to support the presumptions of the enlightenment philosophers to hold truth to the value of science as a reli...
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What does Trigg say about the Enlightenment and scientism replacing religion -
Answer-He says that there is no evidence to support the presumptions of the
enlightenment philosophers to hold truth to the value of science as a religion no more
than there is to hold the ancient myths of the Greek Gods to be true and factual.
Political freedom is necessary for the advancement of science - Answer-Autonomy and
Choice
Trigg point out that theological conception of autonomy was of freedom granted
othumans to pursue God's plan of not. - Answer-Autonomy and Choice
Aristotle's four causes - Answer-1.) The material cause: the matter that something is
made of. i.e. a chair
2.) The efficient cause: the push or shore that gets something going. i.e. wood
3.) The formal cause (structure). i.e. a carpenter's work
4.) The final cause (purpose). i.e. to sit on
Newton's two causes - Answer-Mass (matter) and Acceleration (efficient cause)
Deism - Answer-was a prominent quasi-religious philosophy of the time that held that
God had made the world the way a clock maker makes a clock, but then had left it to
run on its own as a self-directing mechanism for all of eternity.
Rationality according to modernism - Answer-was the propensity of Human minds to
work like the mind of God and discern the mark of God's handiwork on the world.
Purposes, intentions, goals, and structs were thus everywhere, both in nature itself, and
in human understandings of nature and God's purposes in nature.
, Trigg argues against the enlightenment that - Answer-they are not understanding the
degree to which mechanistic materialism undermines the very notions of truth and
rationality on which both philosophy and science depend.
Linguistic Relativism - Answer-There are many different languages in the world and they
do not all cut up the world into the same pieces. There are different words with different
meanings in each culture and language
Cultural Relativism - Answer-social beliefs vary from culture to culture
Conceptual schemes relativism - Answer-is an arguments for relativism that builds on
some of the points made in both inguisitc and cultural arguments for relativism.
Moral Relativism - Answer-It argues that world views, languages, and cultures are
different, and each has its own evaluation of right and wrong. Moral relativism then
claims that it is wrong for anyone to try to force their notions of right and wrong on
anyone else.
Trigg Concludes that relativism - Answer-always demands a Gods-eye point of view in
order to survey all of the myriad sets of human beliefs
Naturalism - Answer-Is the claim that all exists is part of the natural world
Scientific determinism - Answer-Is a pretty straightforward result of some of the basic
presuppositions of materialism and naturalism
What goes with Freedom? - Answer-Morality, Legal systems, intellectual independence.
Evolutionary Epistemology - Answer-A claim that all of our thoughts, perceptions, and
ultimately knowledge and actions are caused by the interaction of genetics, inheritance
and environment
Reasons and Causes - Answer-Trigg argues that reasons and causes are completely
separate orders of things, and evolutionary epistemology actually fails to be
epistemology because it has them conflated.
Reasons and causes - Answer-Trigg argues that reasons are logical, and operate
according to the rules of a deductive logical system. Truth of falsity are the goals of a
logical system. Causation is an inductive process, and its rules are probabilistic.
Trigg argues against E.O. Wilson - Answer-That is we were as determined as Wilson
claims, Wilson could never achieve the level of intellectual independence necessary to
notice that a causal, determined world contrasts with a free, chosen one or a logically
reasoned one. Trigg claims that if Wilson's point of view were true, there would be no
capacity for him to argue with people who believe in free will, and no reason for him to
do so, either.
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