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

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

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

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

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

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

goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

wrote, "The very fact that the human being is rational necessitates its being characterized by free decision [liberum arbitrium]" ...

In nine pages this paper discusses how man's best life can be best pursued, concepts of good and evil, and divine knowledge accord...

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

of Christianity is "Thou Shalt Not Kill," and yet Christians have been killing each other, as well as non-Christians, for millenni...

actions would have been sanctioned by law forty years ago, the consensus of society at today is that this sort of discrimination i...

the problem-solving work "forward by rendering intelligible the problems various dimensions" (Miller, 2002, p. 173). The first se...

belief at the time (The Radical Academy, 2004). God gives this power to the people as a whole, not to individuals (The Radical Aca...

In seven pages the views of Plato, Thomas Aquinas, and Thomas Hobbes are compared and contrasted in a consideration of whether or ...

In seven pages this paper discusses how this preeminent religious philosopher defined virtue, justice, and the common good. One s...

In five pages this paper examines how the principles outlined in Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan define what should be regarded as true l...

In ten pages this research paper discusses the philosophical arguments of Jean Paul Sartre, William James, Michel de Montaigne, Th...

In five pages these philosophers' views on ethics are contrasted and compared as represented by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics an...