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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...
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...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
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...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
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. ...
than a man can do the same for God, if there is a God. In essence, if God exists then God is a being that is capable of creating a...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
In nine pages this paper discusses how Rene Descartes philosophically attempted to prove God exists in his Meditations on First Ph...
is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...
In six pages this paper argues that a morally omnipotent and perfect God is not possible because of the existence of evil. Eight ...
In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...
any scientific evidence to prove that a higher power created the universe. It is, most likely, as with humans, a product of evolu...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...