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Note that your written responses MUST INTEGRATE COURSE CONTENT (it must come from something covered in the readings and lecture powerpoints), and MUST CITE SOURCES if you directly quote from the readings or powerpoints. If the response you provide is irrelevant to the way these terms were covered in class, you are liable to receive zero credit for it. Do keep in mind that all responses are manually submitted into Turnitin.Com for plagiarism detection, and may be scanned on Originality.Ai for AI-use detection. – – – – – -Please answer the following question, at least 100 words   Why does Rene Descartes believe we should use Clear and Distinct Ideas as the good basis for determining what is real?  In your response, be sure to define what “clear” means, and what “distinct” means, according to Descartes. 

WK Clifford is a philosopher who is critical of those who believe in God.  In the following, match the quotes with their corresponding missing words: 

Which of the following is a claim of cultural relativism?  (there may be more than one answer.  Please select ALL that apply)

Philosophy of Religion is a sub-discipline of philosophy that seeks to question the assumptions underlying [term1] or [term2] concepts. However, unlike the disciplines of [term3] or [term4], philosophy of religion is a purely [term5] discipline. 

Note that your written responses MUST INTEGRATE COURSE CONTENT (it must come from something covered in the readings and lecture powerpoints), and MUST CITE SOURCES if you directly quote from the readings or powerpoints. If the response you provide is irrelevant to the way these terms were covered in class, you are liable to receive zero credit for it. Do keep in mind that all responses are manually submitted into Turnitin.Com for plagiarism detection, and may be scanned on Originality.Ai for AI-use detection. – – – – – -Please answer the following question, at least 100 words   What are the stages of Plato’s Divided Line, and how is this Divided Line connected to his discussion of the Allegory of the Cave?

Fill in the blanks: In her essay, Marilyn McCord Adams speaks of horrendous evils.  She defines horrendous evils as “Evils experienced that are so bad, they initially (or prima facie) seem to [term1] that individual’s life of [term2].”  Because of this, she speaks of two kinds of problems of goodness.  One kind, like Mackie’s and Plantinga’s, can give rational and [term3] explanations for evil.  However, in the case of individual lives suffered, these logical arguments are not [term4], as they may be [term5] or inappropriate. 

Which of the following qualities/characteristics is NOT considered in the logical problem of evil? 

Descartes continues to examine himself, and discovers something about “thought.”  What does he discover about it?

Which of the following are characteristics of just laws, according to Martin Luther King, Jr.?  (Note: there may be more than one answer.  Please select ALL that apply)

Plato/Socrates talks about an analogy.  What is the subject of the analogy?