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The Philosphy of God

a perfect idea has to have been placed in the human mind by a perfect being or God, which is equivalent to Descartes Third Meditat...

The Existence Of God and Descartes' Argument

simple to Descartes, so simple it needs no argument. He basically says that as long as one is thinking, one exists. To Descartes, ...

Existence of God

goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...

Plato, Francis Crick, and Leibniz on the Existence of God

being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...

Existence of God

In ten pages this paper argues in favor of the existence of God. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....

Existence of God According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

In three pages this paper discusses how God's existence was argued by Saint Thomas Aquinas. There is no bibliography included....

Kant, Aquinas, and Others on the Existence of God

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

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

Biography and Arguments of Saint Augustine of Hippo

In four pages this paper presents an autobiography of Saint Augustine and also considers his arguments on the existence of God....

Evil and Theodicy

the ultimate good. If God has created finite spirits endowed with free will, it must be expected that this free will is going to...

God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembene

theme, in fact, throughout the book, as resentments continued to simmer). Peasants, for the most part, pretty much dont know they ...

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...

God Question As Approached by Howard Thurman

In five pages this paper examines how African American author Howard Thurman deals with questions regarding God's nature and exist...

Philosophical Discussion Questions

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

Old Testament Book of Samuel Questions

In this paper, well review some of the connections between God and the leaders of Samuel, and determine how God related to those l...

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

How to Think About God According to Mortimer Adler

In five pages God's existence as it is considered within the context of Mortimer Adler's How to Think about God A Guide for the 20...

What is a Religious Experience?

to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...

Does Meditations Represent a Contradictory Rene Descartes?

that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...

Rene Descartes and the "Evil Demon" Argument

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

Third Meditation of Rene Descartes

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

Differing Opinions of Aristotle and Plato

In eight pages this paper examines how the views of Aristotle and Plato on God's existence, poetics, and forms concepts differed. ...

Contemporary Religion and Plato

In six pages this paper compares contemporary religious views with Plato's philosophical concepts with God's existence, morality, ...

Aristotle's Original Theories

coined until Aristotle contributed to it, the concepts were there in the past. Thus, in such concerns, one might say that Aristotl...

Comparison of Spinoza and Hume

was that pleasure was immediate gratification but the greater good would be realized by a life lived based on principles as the go...

Fictional Philosophical Conversation Between Two People

In six pages this paper presents a fictional dialogue on philosophy between two people with one arguing in favor of sensual proof ...

An Examination of Atheism

In ten pages this research paper presents arguments on God's existence both pro and con and discusses beliefs of atheists. Eight ...

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...

Critical Analysis of the 4th Proof of St.Thomas Aquinas

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...