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In five pages this paper examines Aquinas' 5 arguments on God's existence and exposes the errors in his 2nd argument. Three sourc...
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 Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...
This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...
broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...
In ten pages this research paper discusses the philosophical arguments of Jean Paul Sartre, William James, Michel de Montaigne, Th...
basic argument that Aquinas presents for the existence of God. The following is just one way in which this could be addressed: A...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...
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...
In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
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 ...
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...
In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...
In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...
own regions. For example, in New York it is legal for a woman to remove her shirt on a public, city street but few do so as they r...
In three pages this paper analyzes the 'second way' interpretation of Saint Thomas Aquinas in the presentation of an 'in esse' and...
In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing 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...
of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
principle being expressed is that everything which causes change, or gives rise to existence, must be the result of some predecess...
One more type of proof has been added to Aristotle's three means of proof in a debate or argument. It is Mythos. All four are expl...