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God's Existence and Reason

In eight pages this paper examines God's existence in a consideration of philosophy's rational arguments. Four sources are cited ...

Teleology and Proving God's Existence Through Reason

thought and action are connected, bringing to mind the view of science and how it demonstrated the same evidence. Character...

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...

First Meditation of Rene Descartes

Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...

Biography and Arguments of Saint Augustine of Hippo

In four pages this paper presents an autobiography of Saint Augustine and also considers his arguments on the existence of God....

Evil and Theodicy

the ultimate good. If God has created finite spirits endowed with free will, it must be expected that this free will is going to...

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...

An Argument Against the God Existence Proof by Kierkegaard

In three pages the writer criticizes Kierkegaard's argument and counters the philosophical logic used in the contention that reaso...

What is a Religious Experience?

to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...

How to Think About God According to Mortimer Adler

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...

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...

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...

God Exists According to the Arguments of Saint Augustine

something greater than humans and that is God (Donati, 2002). He offers further proof through mathematical concepts, for instance,...

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...

Rene Descartes and the "Evil Demon" Argument

do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...

God’s Existence: Craig, Socrates, and Nietzsche

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...

Who Is The Intelligent Designer

prove the existence of God, which he considered to be self-evident. Aquinas said that when we are not able to demonstrate the caus...

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...

Philosophical Discussion Questions

as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...

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...

Existence of God and a Prayer That is Answered

patients who were able to learn the art of "conscious relaxation" not only were able to quit smoking and eat better, but showed im...

God's Existence According to Swinburne

a cause. The best solution for the primal cause of the universe is God; therefore, God exists. However, this brings up the questio...

Existence of God and Philosophical Proof

the meditations is not to prove what they establish, but rather to show how the world of physics could be mapped reliably and inde...

Skepticism and the Existence of God

is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...

Hume, Kant, and Descartes' Teleological, Ontological, and Cosmological Arguments and God's Existence Criticisms

Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

God's Existence and the Teleological Method of David Hume

supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...

Philosophical Concept Known as 'the Great Chain of Being'

of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...

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...

God According to David Hume

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...

David Hume

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...