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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Aquinas’s Argument During the medieval time period Christianity was practiced by over one-third of the European population. At that time‚ all European philosophers had three different types of arguments to prove the existence of God: the Ontological argument‚ which stated that God‚ by nature‚ must exist; the Teleological argument‚ which stated that the world we live in was made by intelligent design. Therefore‚ a designer must exist to be able to make such a perfect world. Lastly‚ there is the
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concept is animal cruelty. Animal cruelty simply means cruel unwarranted treatment of animals. Such treatment generally has a single point program - to subject animals and sometimes pets to unnecessary harm and pain. One major type of animal cruelty is torture. Animal cruelty is a ambiguous term and the terminology depends from region to region‚ state to state and country to country. The definition of animal cruelty may be anything between comprehensive and non-existent. While animal cruelty
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Bird 1. He eats like a bird． 2．A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush． 3．We’re all early birds in my family because we live on a farm. 4. Birds of a feather flock together． 5．That’s for the birds! 6．It’s an ill bird that fouls own nest． 7. A little bird told me． Horse 8. He eats like a horse． 9．That’s just a lot of horse and donkey dust! 10．It’s time to study now and stop horsing around． 11．I got it straight from the horse s mouth． 12. Just hold your
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During the time when Orwell is writing animal farm‚ communism is on the rise and becoming a problem in quite a few writers’ minds. Many of these writers presented their thoughts on the subject in the form of a satire. In other words mocking something in hope for change. Although Orwell agreed with many of Marx’s ideas‚ he did not agree with how the communist party was carrying out Marxism. In a way of expressing his dislike of communism he writes the novel Animal Farm in a plainer setting then that
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Animal Testing: Unnecessary Cruelty Ever since 1970‚ when an Australian philosopher brought up the idea of animal rights‚ it has been a difficult topic with many different views and opinions on whether or not non-human animals have the required set of qualities to be entitled to rights protecting them from cruelty. What many don’t know is that the roots of the movement date back way much further from a handful of Greek philosophers and thinkers(The Animal Rights Debate). All stating that humans
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Compare and contrast Napoleon and Snowball. What techniques do they use in their struggle for power? Does Snowball represent a morally legitimate political alternative to the corrupt leadership of Napoleon? As Joseph Stalin did‚ Napoleon prefers to work behind the scenes to build his power through manipulation and deal-making‚ while Snowball devotes himself‚ as Leon Trotsky did‚ to winning popular support through his ideas‚ passionate speeches‚ and success in debates with his opponent. Snowball
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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 Harwood’s eleven objections to the theory. Sterling Harwood states that even he does
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theory of man and beast. He chooses two distinct animals that should represent the ideal prince‚ which are the fox and the lion. Machiavelli draws his conclusion from the teachings of ancient Greece‚ more specifically Achilles and Chiron. Achilles was sent to Chiron who was half man and half beast to be trained to become a great warrior. "To have as a teacher a half-beast‚ half-man means nothing other than that a prince needs to know how to use both natures" (Mansfield 69). Machiavelli proposed
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people or animals for the least amount of suffering. For example you can rationalize killing a mass murderer before he kills even more people. Therefore taking the life of one person to save the life of many more. There are multiple arguments for or against weather we should eat animals or not. On one side there is the argument that we should exploit animals for food because we need it to survive and make us happy. On the other hand some people are completely against exploiting animals and say
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