What is the "Cosmological Argument" for God’s existence? Be sure to make the premises and conclusion clear. Discuss what you take to be the strongest objection to this argument‚ and explain why you think it succeeds or fails. The cosmological argument for God’s existence differs from both the scriptural and ontological arguments in the way in which humans created it. Rather than looking at logical arguments or religious texts‚ the cosmological argument was derived because of humanity’s ability
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A New Argument for Morality: A Critique The Prince‚ one of the first works of modern philosophy‚ was written in the genre of political doctrine: the Mirror of Princes. This style was reflected in the works of many writers of antiquity‚ such as Seneca and Isocrates‚ extending as far back as to the apices of traditional Western culture and civilization in Rome and Greece. As The Prince derives its thought from classical roots of political thought‚ its originality is questionable. The third chapter
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state are entitled to have freedom of action. This means that these individuals have the right to engage in any action that they want‚ regardless of if it is harmful to them or not‚ this is one of the definitions for Mill’s harm principle. These actions can be known as self-regarding and other regarding actions‚ a self regarding action is known to be an action which only affects the involved persons‚ whereas other regarding actions are defined as any action which causes harm to others (Garner‚ Ferdinand
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I do not find any of the traditional proofs for God’s existence persuasive‚ and I will go over each argument one at a time to explain why I do not find them persuasive‚ starting with Anselm’s ontological argument‚ then Aquinas’ cosmological argument‚ and finally Paley’s teleological argument. First‚ Anselm’s ontological argument is not persuasive because the argument can be used to prove things that do not exist. The faulty logic is shown in Gaunilo’s Lost Island Objection because instead of putting
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Glaucon’s Argument In Book 2 of the Republic‚ Glaucon is passionate about finding the true meaning of what justice is. To do this he decides to praise injustice in the purest way so that Socrates will refute it and give him the meaning of justice in its purest form. Glaucon approaches the situation by discussing the following three points: the “kind of thing people consider justice to be and what its origins are”‚ “that all who practice it do so unwillingly‚ as something necessary‚ not as something
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says "This argument is fallacious you all blame God for the bad things in life when really it’s people because God gave us free will" and then several atheists begin to bicker and argue with him over who is right and wrong for literally an hour straight before I even read any of it but they totally miss the point this dude is so full of himself for having used all these big words and was so sure he was so much smarter than everyone in that forum until I hit him with this: "Your argument was flawed
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the ultimate sources of our actions are within our control. As such‚ we are held morally responsible. Determinism is the thesis that all events in the future are causally determined by previous events‚ in conjunction with the laws of nature. Compatibilism is the thesis that we can have free will in a deterministic world. However‚ if we are part of a world in which the causal chain of our actions extends back to before we were born‚ this erodes the notion that our actions are sufficiently free to make
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argue that an approach to corporate social responsibility that achieves business benefits is nothing of that sort - THAT’s just good business. So CSR must be only those things that are of no direct benefit to the business - ie. philanthropy. Cue the arguments about how CEOs should not be giving shareholders money away on their personal causes and projects. This is just dumb. Nobody says that marketing is not marketing if it benefits the business‚ or HR is not ’pure’ HR if its priorities align with
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manner by answering the short paragraphs assigned. Assignment 01 will be marked fairly fully and sent back to you. What you get for this assignment will count 10 % of your year mark. (Your year mark counts 25% of your final mark). Affirmative action: a losing battle? There are considerable reasons to suppose that this topic‚ which affects all citizens of South African in particular. In some instances it is a policy viewed with hostility as it is said to discriminate against section
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happiness of the greatest number‚ or as cold as it may be‚ sacrificing the few for the good of the many. Utilitarian moral theories evaluate the moral worth of action on the basis of happiness that is produced by an action. Whatever produces the most happiness in the most people is the moral course of action. I will give the best arguments against Utilitarianism‚ and show in my own opinion‚ why I think they are wrong. The strongest counterargument against Utilitarianism would have to be Sterling
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