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In eight pages this paper examines God's existence in a consideration of philosophy's rational arguments. Four sources are cited ...
thought and action are connected, bringing to mind the view of science and how it demonstrated the same evidence. Character...
idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...
Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
In four pages this paper presents an autobiography of Saint Augustine and also considers his arguments on the existence of God....
the ultimate good. If God has created finite spirits endowed with free will, it must be expected that this free will is going to...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
In three pages the writer criticizes Kierkegaard's argument and counters the philosophical logic used in the contention that reaso...
to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...
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...
In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...
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...
something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...
do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...
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...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...
if they were not a part of society then it would be obvious that God did not exist. In relationship to what other philosophers fro...
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...
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 ...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
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...
He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...