There has not been a subject more hotly contested in human history than the existence of God. As modern scientific thinking continues to develop the discussion surrounding God’s existence has only intensified. In fact‚ as religion and science begin to come into conflict more frequently and people find it harder to have faith the debate has often boiled over. Personally‚ I do believe in a God‚ but I see Him a little differently than the traditional Biblical portrayal of God. One of the biggest reasons
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I chose this article from http://io9.com/the-7-most-intriguing-philosophical-arguments-for-the-e-1507393670 (I copied it over to Word because the ads and pop-ups and pictures would have made for a difficult read as well as a lengthy print). I chose this article not because I am either a Bible-Banging Christian who would love to throw proof into Theist’s faces nor because I am a Theist that wants to scream “Science!” and rub Bible Banger nose’s in it. I found this interesting one because it is not
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Aquinas‚ would change this belief system forever. <br> <br>Peter Abelard applied logic and reasoning in a systematic fashion to church doctrines‚ and greatly furthered the development of scholasticism in the middle ages. <br> <br>Abelard studied under Anselm of Laon in northern France. He looked down upon his teachers and viewed them as insignificant‚ and took up the teaching of theology in Paris. He became known for the force with which he threw himself into arguments with fellow intellectuals. In Abelard’s
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Defining existence as a predicate‚ or a property of God’s nature is essential within the ontological argument and many scholars have attacked the argument on this basis. My opinion is that existence cannot be seen to be a predicate of God or a predicate of anything else either. Even if we assume that existence can be seen to be a predicate that something can have‚ I believe that the ontological argument fails in proving that existence is a predicate of God. Like Hume has argued‚ the whole basis
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response I’m a million and one times better than you!” thinking he has one the argument but then the first child says “I’m everything you say plus one!”. This basically means whatever child B says‚ child A is always better. One Christian man named Anselm summed up this argument perfectly in a quotation and said God should be described as ‘that which nothing greater can
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rode through the heavens in his chariot during a thunderstorm‚ and whenever he threw his hammer‚ lightning flashed. Thor was the protector of both gods and humans against evil forces. Few example of early philosopher and there beliefs can be ; St. Anselm of Canterbury was a neo Platonist‚ and he is best known for his efforts at coming up with a logical proof of God’s existence -- the famous ontological proof: Since we can think of a perfect being‚ he must exist‚ since perfection implies existence
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Aquinas argued that a reason as to why the ontological argument does not work is that we do not know what God is‚ Descartes disagreed with this. Descartes‚ who was a very influential mathematician‚ philosopher and scientist‚ believed‚ similarly to Anselm and Plato previously‚ that human beings mind’s are imprinted with concepts such as equality‚ cause‚ shape and number as well as an understanding of what God is which we all share from birth. We have an intrinsic understanding that God is the supremely
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Grounded theory has emerged from the knowledge of Barney Glaser and Anselm Strauss in early 1967. Later on‚ Strauss developed a highly structured‚ fully qualitative book with Juliet Corbin. Grounded theory is a form of a qualitative research which studies individuals’ experiences with some kind of a process and then creates a theory or an explanation of how that process works. It mainly relies on interviews‚ observations‚ and artifacts. The theory that is created in grounded theory is generated
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Johnny von Neumann “There are two kinds of people in the world: Johnny von Neumann and the rest of us.” Eugene Wigner‚ Nobel Prize winning physicist. December 28‚ 1903 a mind unlike any other was born‚ Janos Neumann. Janos Neumann was the first born son of Max Neumann‚ a non-practicing Hungarian Jew. Max Neumann had very good education‚ he became a doctor of laws and later worked as a lawyer for a bank. Early in Janos ’ life‚ Max bought a title which he never used but his son‚ Janos did. The
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Outline Descartes’ Ontological Argument and explain the key objections that may be used against it. Descartes took the Ontological Argument as presented by Anselm and developed it in a different form. Descartes saw the argument in terms of necessary existence. For Descartes‚ the idea of God necessarily entails his existence. He established that our thoughts are evidence of our own existence (‘I think therefore I am’)‚ and so wanted to see what else he could prove exists. He used the example of a
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