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Contemporary Christian Belief final exam notes
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 4
01/24/2010

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4 Forms of Hypocrisy
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Pretense, Blame, Inconsitensy, Complacency
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Realms in which to rediscover our Biblical worldview
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Intellect, ethics, and spiritual formations
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5 Transitional areas from Modernism to Postmodernism
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Economically, Philosophically, Politically, Socially, Artistically
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"I define Postmodernism as incredulity to metanarritives"
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Jean-Francois Lyotard
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Metanarratives
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Overarching account or grand picture
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Descartes
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Modern. Mathmetician
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Newton
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Modern. Saw the cosmos as a machine that operates according to strict laws
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Kant
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Modern. Sought to make ethics a totally rational enterprise.

 

Precursor to Postmodern. People condition reality and determine the nature of knowledge.

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Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau
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Modern. Sought to found political rights on natural law
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Nietzche
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Precursor to postmodernism.  Reason cannot discover objective truth or meaning. Morals are artificially devised.
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Wittgenstein
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Language is merely a social phenomenon
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Kuhn
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Precursor to Postmodernism. Science is not an entirely rational enterprise.  Paradigms are incommensurable, and paradigm shifts are not base in objective theory assessment.
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Incommensurable
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Not able to be judged by the same standard something.

 

Having no common standard of measurement

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Planck's Quantum Theory
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Energy comes in packets, not a steady stream.
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Einstein's theory of relativity
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Space and time are not absolute.  Gravity is a curvature of space.
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Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle
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Position or momentum of a subatomic particle can be determined, but not both.
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Derrida's Deconstructionism
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meaning is imposed upon texts, not inherent in them
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Foucault's Suspicion of History
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the "myth of neutrality" and the "myth of unity"
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Rorty's Relativism
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Truth is whatever your peers will let you get away with saying.
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Cessationist
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There are no miraculous gifts today
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Aestheticism
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Art and the artist are insusceptible to moral judgment
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Moralism
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Only judge morality in assessing art
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Ethicism
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Moral qualities contribute or detract from the art, but is not the only consideration. (Middle ground of moralism and aestheticism)
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Moralist approach of assessment
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assesses art via moral stuff
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ideological approach
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assesses art via social, economic, and political stuff
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theological approach
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assesses art via religious themes
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appropriation
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art is ok, only if it's christian. Infusing pop art with spiritual justification
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consumption
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there's no conflict between pop culture and christian faith
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condemnation
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rejection of art entirely
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