Essays 31 - 60
In four pages concepts of religion, God, and transcendence are considered in a comparative analysis of Kant's philosophy and Hegel...
- while a religious man himself - strongly believed to reflect mankinds futile passion toward Gods plan and the failure to realize...
between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one...
is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...
patients who were able to learn the art of "conscious relaxation" not only were able to quit smoking and eat better, but showed im...
a cause. The best solution for the primal cause of the universe is God; therefore, God exists. However, this brings up the questio...
the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...
the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...
if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...
prove the existence of God, which he considered to be self-evident. Aquinas said that when we are not able to demonstrate the caus...
as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...
constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
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 ...
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...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...
controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...
In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...
In five pages this paper discusses how Dali struggled with his interests in science and spiritualism as reflected in his surrealis...
In five pages this paper discusses proving God's existence in a consideration of works by Francis Bacon and Martin Luther. Two so...
In five pages this paper examines how African American author Howard Thurman deals with questions regarding God's nature and exist...