Question 1

What topic did Russell and Copleston debate about?

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Existence of God

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Meaning of life

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Ethics and morality

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Nature of reality

Question 2

What was Bertrand Russell's position on the existence of God?

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Agnostic

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Atheist

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Theist

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Pantheist

Question 3

What was Frederick Copleston's position on the existence of God?

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Theist

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Agnostic

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Deist

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Atheist

Question 4

What were Copleston's main arguments in favor of the existence of God?

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Cosmological and teleological arguments

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Existence of miracles and religious experiences

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Divine revelation and personal experience

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Problem of evil and lack of evidence

Question 5

What did Bertrand Russell criticize about Frederick Copleston's arguments?

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Leaping from existence to attributes

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Reliance on religious texts

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Lack of logical coherence

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Ignoring empirical evidence

Question 6

What was Frederick Copleston's religious affiliation?

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Jesuit Catholic

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Muslim

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Protestant

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Buddhist

Question 7

What was Bertrand Russell's response to the 'First Cause' argument presented by Copleston?

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Rejected it

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Ignored it

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Refuted it with the problem of evil

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Accepted it

Question 8

According to Russell, where do we derive the concept of cause from?

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our observation of particular things

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our knowledge of logic

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our imagination

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our intuition

Question 9

What does Copleston believe about the statement that there isn't any cause?

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It should come at the end of the inquiry

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It is impossible to determine

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It should come at the beginning of the inquiry

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It is irrelevant to the inquiry

Question 10

According to Copleston, what must the total be if it has no cause?

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its own cause

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a mystery

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a result of chance

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an illusion

Question 11

What does Copleston believe about the statement that the world is simply there?

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It presupposes that the question has meaning

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It is a scientific fact

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It doesn't require an explanation

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It is a meaningless statement

Question 12

What is the source of our concept of cause?

Accepted Answer

our observation of particular things

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our cultural beliefs

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our intuition

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our reasoning abilities

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