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Reality Struggles of Rene Descartes, George Berkeley, and David Hume

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

Concept of Divinity of God

that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...

Existence of God Arguments

the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...

Philosophical Concepts

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

God's Existence Belief

at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...

2 Interpretations of Gender in Islam

come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...

Canonization Process

Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...

Holy Scriptures and Covenants of God

sovereignty. Moreover, another significant point relevant to Gods covenants is that they cannot be revoked or nullified. Nor can ...

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...

How Rene Descartes Used Principles, Definitions, and Deductive Reasoning to Argue that God Exists

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...

God's Existence Arguments

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

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...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

Plato, Homer, and Gods

(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, mo...

God's Existence Cosmological Argument

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

Thomas Frank's One Market Under God

dot.coms are in great part responsible for the changes. These young people shed the suits and adopted street-wise jargon, flauntin...

God's Sovereignty in the Bible's Old and New Testaments

- the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end; there is no other Lord but Him, He is God over heaven and over earth and onl...

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...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and the Gods' Role

Goddess). She even enhances his physical appearance in order to assure he gets home. "Once Odysseus reaches the city that Nausi...

God's Existence and the Ontological Argument

is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...

Theist and Atheist Arguments on God's Existence

constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...

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...

Maya Angelou and Malcolm X, No Comparison?

For many, a comparison of the gentle grace of Maya Angelou's poetry with the fiery prose of Malcolm X would be difficult. Yet, as ...

Book of Daniel Analysis

In a paper consisting of twenty five pages the Old Testament's Book of Daniel is extensively analyzed and presents the argument su...

Belief in God in Hinduism and Buddhism

reverence that can only be achieved through understanding the esoteric aspects of the three worlds. "The experiential and devotio...

Ephesians and the Gentiles' Adoption

deal with the removal of the Jewish-Gentile barrier, also carry within them the promise for the removal of other barriers which ke...

God's Existence and the Argument of Saint Anselm

In five pages the eleventh century argument of Anselm regarding God's existence is examined as presented in Monologium. One sourc...

God's Existence According to Rene Descartes

In five pages this report examines Descartes' First Philosophy regarding nature and God's existence as featured in his First Medit...

Adams's Essay 'Should God Create Good?'

In five pages the arguments presented in this essay in terms of God's and man's obligations to potential life are compared to soci...

'Reasonable' Belief in God?

In seven pages this paper examines whether or not the human belief in God's existence is reasonable. Eight sources are cited in t...