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

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

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

This will be my name forever; it has always been my name, and it will be used throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). "God rep...

In six pages this research paper and essay considers how God's existence or lack thereof was argued by these three philosophers. ...

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

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...

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

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

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

Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...

cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...

- 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...

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

argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...

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

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

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...

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

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...