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This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...
basic argument that Aquinas presents for the existence of God. The following is just one way in which this could be addressed: A...
In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
appetite for sex...amounts to being enslaved" and is essentially a sin (Armstrong, 1998). Armstrong (1998) indicates that there ...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
In eight pages this research paper contrasts and compares these Christian theologians in terms of their similarities and differenc...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
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 ...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...
doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...
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...
the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...
In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...
of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...
In eighteen pages this paper examines how St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine of Hippo developed the 'just war' concept and theor...
In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...
In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...
18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...
reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
be the first cause (Philosophy Online, n.d.). 3. Everything that exists at one time did not and may not at some time in the future...