Apr5 Alt ?s Nature’s God by Stewart (4-5).

1.   According to the history of ideas, … “Pantheism” is the idea that all things are imbued with what? (166).

2.   “Providence,” Spinoza concludes consists of what? (171).

3.   The atheism inherent in the Locke-Spinoza proof, on the other hand, concentrates on the nature of God and seeks to explain—and thereby explain away--what? (174).

4.   The essential feature of Newton’s God is that he is what? (176).

5.   To cut a long story short: “Nature’s God,” the God of Thomas Young and the presiding deity of the American Revolution, is another word for what? (183).

6.   Who stated that “Everything is in common betwixt soul and body…The existence therefore of the one must be dependent on the other.” (241).

7.   Among the most radical of the American productions on the topic of the immortal soul is the first what? (242).

8.   The traditional conception of immortality also takes for granted that the purpose of the afterlife is what? (245).

9    Radical philosophy supposes that the long and arduous path to freedom passes through what? (259).

10. We are equal and have certain unalienable rights not because we take on faith the idea that we represent an exception to the laws of nature but, on the contrary, precisely because why? (262).

 Alternative discussion questions.

1.       A child born with a normal functioning brain dies at three months. Did they have thoughts?

2.       Stewart states that Ethan Allen infers that the mind may exist after the body is gone (is Stephen Hawking a case in point?), but likewise can the body exist after the mind is gone? Think of Alzheimer patients.