Compare and contrast Blaise Pascal’s wager argument and William James’s -Philosophy

Compare and contrast Blaise Pascal’s wager argument and William James’s -Philosophy

Choose           any      one      question         from    each    group  and      write   a        1200-1500 words      answer           for       each.   500     points. required book: “God” by Timothy A Robinson, and “Variety of religious experience” by William James.

1. God’sExistence        and      the       Problem         of         Evil

1.Explain           why     some   thinkers          have    found  the       existence        of         evil      to         be      a          counterexample        to         Anselm’s         Ontological     Proof  of         God’s  Existence.      Is         the       existence        of         evil      truly    incompatible  with     a          wholly good   and      all-powerful   divinity?          Explain           your    answer.

2.In   Evil           and      the       God     of         Love    John    Hick     argued that     the       existence        of      both    moral  and      natural            evil      is         compatible     with     God’s  existence.      What   is         Hick’s  argument       and      is         he        correct?          Explain           your      answer.

3.Compare        and      contrast          Blaise  Pascal’s           wager argument       and      William      James’s           argument       that     our      “passional      nature not      only     lawfully           may,      but      must,   decide an        option between         propositions  whenever       it          is         a      genuine          option that     cannot by        its        nature be        decided           on        intellectual      grounds”        (“The  Will     to         Believe,”         374).

1. TheVarieties         of         Religious        Experience

Present           and      critically          evaluate          the       account           of         conversion     that      William           James  lays     out      in         Lectures         IX         and      X          of         The      Varieties         of         Religious        Experience.

1. Presentandcritically          evaluate          the       features          of         saintliness      that      James  lays     out      in         Lectures         XI         –          XIII.

2. Presentandcritically          evaluate          the       features          of         mysticism       that      James  lays     out      in         Lectures         XVI      and      XVII.

3. xCriticallyevaluateJames’s           distinction      between         the       “religion         of      healthy-mindedness”            and      the       experience     of         the       “sick-souled”  believer.

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