YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :How to Achieve Peaceful Existence
Essays 271 - 300
and the imagination. However, he states that gaining an idea of self from the presentation given by the senses initially cannot re...
In five pages the eleventh century argument of Anselm regarding God's existence is examined as presented in Monologium. One sourc...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
(Wilford, 1996). According to British astronomer Dr Alan Penny, this discovery is much more significant than many people realize:...
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...
capable of undergoing so many changes with regard to appearance, temperature, solidity and so on as to be rendered completely diff...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
in front of me and a keyboard at my fingers. Is the movement of my fingers real as I type these words? The possibility that perh...
when an examination is undertaken of the way in which human rights are protected, the value of independent organisations such as A...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
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...
Cartesian dualism is also known as the "mind-body problem" and establishes that there are clearly separate and distinct aspects of...
angle. The nature of man is generally self-serving. However, economics is not the end all and be all of social life as it was for ...
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
that can render a thought or a concept wrong. One can do a study one day to prove that cholesterol is bad, and then another day, a...
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
is characterized in a particular way; Sartre argues that "conflict is the original meaning of being-for- others." (Baron, 2002, PG...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
"the cauldron of competing doctrines which swirled at the heart of the early church...All medieval philosophers drew on his work, ...
experiences were possible (Gogan, 2006). This author indicates this in the following: "Kant gets rid of the usual foundation for r...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...
In five pages an article in which Benetar claims it is better not to be born along with an offered opposing position is examined. ...