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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...

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

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...

of the progress which the process of democratisation was making in America in the eighteenth century. It could be asserted that Ma...

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...

he was unhappy with the idea of being a businessman. Paine, with the soul of a revolutionary, left his small English village and e...

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...

the basis for the stereotype of his day and age. And those who tend to deviate from this norm are assumed to be unmanly. These typ...

in clear opposition to what is found in Genesis. The student will want to point out that Adam and Eve can easily relate...

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

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...

come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...

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 a paper consisting of 5 pages man's inhumanity towards man is discussed with Holocaust and other examples provided. Three sour...

For many, a comparison of the gentle grace of Maya Angelou's poetry with the fiery prose of Malcolm X would be difficult. Yet, as ...

In a paper that consists of five pages St. Augustine's concept of God is explored along with a consideration of its rationale in o...

reverence that can only be achieved through understanding the esoteric aspects of the three worlds. "The experiential and devotio...

In a paper containing 5 pages the usefulness of analogical language in theological inquiries is evaluated by incorporating the the...

In six pages philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas are incorporated into a series of student submitted questions a...

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

In seven pages this paper examines whether or not the human belief in God's existence is reasonable. Eight sources are cited in t...

In five pages this paper discusses the grounds for believing in God's existence by discussing philosophical interpretations of fou...