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Defending Thomas Aquinas' Proof God Exists

basic argument that Aquinas presents for the existence of God. The following is just one way in which this could be addressed: A...

Proof Offered by St. Thomas Aquinas That God Exists

This paper examines the contingency theory and causality argument offered by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his cosmological theories on ...

Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes/Existence of God

conclusion that "a being than which none greater can be conceived can be conceived to be greater than it is," which is "absurd" (A...

Western History and the Divine Nature of God

of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...

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...

How to Prove That Love Exists

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 ...

God's Existence Arguments of St. Thomas Aquinas

In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Biography and Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas

The Dominicans were like the Franciscans in that they were a mendicant order wherein the friars "vowed to live faithfully in pover...

Saint Thomas Aquinas' Theology

the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...

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...

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...

God's Existence and Knowledge

In four pages this paper discusses how God's existence is argued through epistemology with Thomas Aquinas' arguments providing evi...

Existence 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...

Intelligent Design and Aquinas

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

Science, Philosophy, and God's Existence

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

Existence of God According to Rene Descartes

In six pages the proof Descartes offered that God exists is considered but other relevant issues such as why he would have been mo...

Philosophically Considering the Existence of God

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

5 Ways of St. Thomas Aquinas

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...

God's Existence and the Design Argument

from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...

God's Existence and Morality

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

David Hume and Thomas Aquinas on God's Existence

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

Analysis of God's Existence

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

Philosophical Arguments Pertaining to God's Existence

In twenty pages this research paper considers philosophical arguments pertaining to God's existence as argued in support and in op...

Existence of God According to Saint Thomas Aquinas

In three pages this paper discusses how God's existence was argued by Saint Thomas Aquinas. There is no bibliography included....

Analogical Language, Aquinas, and Adler

In a paper containing 5 pages the usefulness of analogical language in theological inquiries is evaluated by incorporating the the...

Kant, Aquinas, and Others on the Existence of God

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

Anselm’s Ontological Arguments

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

Thomas Aquinas' Work

the Summa that "St. Thomas, following Aristotle, gives a perfect description and a wonderfully keen analysis of the movements of m...

Saint Anselm and the Noncontradiction Laws

In five pages this paper discusses Saint Anselm's 2 proofs regarding the God concept and the noncontradiction laws along with thes...

Thomas Aquinas, On Law

reason provides a means of discerning action that is "according to nature" (77). He also cites Augustine in stating that there are...