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basic argument that Aquinas presents for the existence of God. The following is just one way in which this could be addressed: A...
This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...
conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
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 ...
In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...
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 four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...
18). Harrison (2006) credits Aquinas as being the "major figure" in the reintroduction of Aristotelian concepts into Western cul...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
be the first cause (Philosophy Online, n.d.). 3. Everything that exists at one time did not and may not at some time in the future...
course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...
In a paper containing 5 pages the usefulness of analogical language in theological inquiries is evaluated by incorporating the the...
In six pages philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas are incorporated into a series of student submitted questions a...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
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...
In three pages this paper discusses how God's existence was argued by Saint Thomas Aquinas. There is no bibliography included....
by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...
the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...
In five pages this paper discusses Saint Anselm's 2 proofs regarding the God concept and the noncontradiction laws along with thes...
reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...