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The Fiery Serpent

Pratt (2001) explain that there is a distinction between "deadliest" and "most dangerous" in this context. Many snakes have deadl...

Anselm’s Ontological Arguments

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

Ethnographic Research

Observations help the researcher to formulate initial descriptions and explanations of the phenomenon being explored; they may als...

God’s Existence: Craig, Socrates, and Nietzsche

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...

A Failed Argument: There Is No God That Is Omniscient, Omnipotent and Perfectly Good

Native Americans. Lets consider the Greeks briefly because their gods are familiar. We are dealing here with Zeus, the King of t...

Women in African Literature

a household that is constantly physically abused by the father. He is a product of colonization and Catholicism and believes that ...

Hebrew History and Yahweh

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...

Philosophy Q and 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...

Canonization Process

Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...

David Hume

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...

Thomas Aquinas' Arguments and the Lack of Proof

In five pages this paper examines Aquinas' 5 arguments on God's existence and exposes the errors in his 2nd argument. Three sourc...

God According to Jean Paul Sartre, Immanuel Kant, and Rene Descartes

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

Achievement of Faith in Easing Conflict

(Psalm 34:19). Today, modern Man is attempting to find his own solutions for the problems/ conflicts that face him, and innumerab...

Holy Scriptures and Covenants of God

sovereignty. Moreover, another significant point relevant to Gods covenants is that they cannot be revoked or nullified. Nor can ...

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

God According to David Hume

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

Images, Ideas, and Belief According to Rene Descartes

his previous beliefs had rested, since he intends to analyse philosophically whether these beliefs are in fact valid, and if they ...

Religious Purposes of Statues of Ancient Sumer and Egypt

There was not just one "Prince of Lagash" since Lagash existed as one of the ancient city-states of southern Mesopotamia. As the s...

How to Prove That Love Exists

In five pages this paper tries to prove love exists by using Thomas Aquinas' 5 proofs of God's existence. One source is cited in ...

Influence of the South in the Writings of Erskine Caldwell

In five pages this paper examines how the South influences Erskine Caldwell's writings in such works as God's Little Acre and Toba...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

How Rene Descartes Used Principles, Definitions, and Deductive Reasoning to Argue that God Exists

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...

God's Existence Arguments

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

Changing Times and Unchanging Philosophical Themes

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

Plato, Homer, and Gods

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

God's Existence Cosmological Argument

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

God's Existence and the Ontological Argument

is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...

Theist and Atheist Arguments on God's Existence

constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...