YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong
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obstacles, the people maintain their stalwart conviction to ultimately seek out a better existence. Kanes Ambiguous Adventu...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
In six pages this research paper contrasts and compares these men's philosophical perspectives on God's existence. Four sources a...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
In six pages this paper examines St. Thomas Aquinas' 'proof' that God exists. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
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...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
Goddess). She even enhances his physical appearance in order to assure he gets home. "Once Odysseus reaches the city that Nausi...
- 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...
argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
evil, was literally personified in the body of evil curses, evil spirits and superstitions. Now, of course, for the most part peop...
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
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...
she would give him a whipping with a belt. These beatings only reinforced Willies belief that the best way to settle problem situa...
under the dominion of God. However, nothing in scripture -- or history for that matter -- suggests that human beings are similar...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
scholars. In Matthew 25, Jesus says that when the hungry are fed and the blind can see and the naked are clothed, that will signif...
reflecting the image of Christ? An examination of scripture reveals that these two ideas are not contradictory. Rather, the idea o...
Testament Law and the Ten Commandments express this relationship (Out of Egypt, 2003). One of the first examples of Gods...
his book, Does God Exist God: The Oldest Question, that yes, God does exist 2000). OMalley seems to be addressing his comments to ...
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...
the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...
them somehow" (Ancient Greek Religion and Mythology, 2003). For example, "The Egyptian goddess Isis was especially popular in Athe...