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Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

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...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

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...

the absurdity of this answer. But suppose I had found a watch upon the ground, and it should be inquired how the watch happened to...

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...

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

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 cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...

In five pages William Paley's teleological argument, St. Anselm's ontological argument, and St. Thomas Aquinas' cosmological argum...

In eight pages this research paper considers philosophical perspectives regarding God's existence and includes David Hume's opposi...

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...

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

doubt, people during that time would have recognized. The twelve person circles are led by each St. Thomas, the Franciscan, and St...

In five pages this paper examines Aquinas' 5 arguments on God's existence and exposes the errors in his 2nd argument. Three sourc...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...

by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...

In five pages this paper examines such metaphysical phenomena as change, Cambridge change, real change, and existence within the c...