YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :A Philosophical Approach to Finding God
Essays 151 - 180
the greater good of humanity. Peters (2002) effectively illustrates how the extent to which stem cell research has ignited a veri...
social spectrum. The old womans story also charts the fall and misfortunes of an individual who was once a beautiful young woman, ...
This followed along with the theories that crises can lead to more serious disorders and can have long-term effects (Myer and Moo...
contemporary forms of prejudice" (Dovidio et al, 1999, pp. 101-105). Intergroup contact as a method of reducing prejudice ...
detailed quantitative research can make the data themselves both formulate and limit the analysis (Trochim, 2002), qualitative res...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
them somehow" (Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology, 2003). For example, "The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athe...
God, and that it is not something that is external or intrinsic to man. In other words, morality does not come from a force outsid...
proving background and an exegetical discussion. Commentaries and other authorities are referenced in this paper. Historical Con...
no means ironic. It refers to the characters of Tea Cake and Janie for the most part and the title of this book comes to life in a...
dot.coms are in great part responsible for the changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flauntin...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
- the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; there is no other Lord but Him, He is God over heaven and over earth and onl...
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...
(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...
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...
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 ...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
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 ...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...