Essays 331 - 360
Goddess). She even enhances his physical appearance in order to assure he gets home. "Once Odysseus reaches the city that Nausi...
are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...
This will be my name forever; it has always been my name, and it will be used throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). "God rep...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...
controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...
In five pages this paper discusses how ASEAN might be able to resolve the tense situation and problems caused by this guerrilla gr...
obstacles, the people maintain their stalwart conviction to ultimately seek out a better existence. Kanes Ambiguous Adventu...
believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...
idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
In five pages the eleventh century argument of Anselm regarding God's existence is examined as presented in Monologium. One sourc...
In five pages this paper examines how African American author Howard Thurman deals with questions regarding God's nature and exist...
In five pages this paper examines skepticism, cogito, the truth rule, and the circular argument about God's existence within the c...
of the Sower in Matthew 13:3-23. This parable talks of a farmer sowing the seed is not to be taken literally. The farmer is an ana...