Philosophers When defending on behalf of Beccaria I would say witches will cease to exist when we stop torturing people and asking them if they are witches. If you torture people long enough asking them if they are Satan himself pretty soon you’ll be having to send a bunch of reincarnations of Satan to the stake instead of witches. Torture someone long enough and they’ll be whatever you want them to be‚ witches included. As for Voltaire‚ I would point out that practices like the witch trials are exactly
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existence of a greater being‚ God has been a debate for longer than almost any other scientific in history. We are told that McCloskey refers to arguments as proofs and often implies that they cannot definitively establish the case for God‚ so therefore they should be abandoned. He says that because these arguments/debates‚ have no proof he dismisses the term argument and refers to them as “proofs”. McCloskey states that theists do not believe in God because said proofs but rather than as a result of some
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Torture’s Terrible Toll is a much more persuasive essay because McCain‚ rather than the essay‚ The case of torture by Michael Levin. McCain’s essay describes his own personal experience in describing how torture is very useless. That he has seen/ had to go through the pain and agony through his own point of view. However‚ Levin uses hypothetical cases on why torture is beneficial. In the case of Torture‚ Michael Levin gives an ineffective example discussing a terrorist threatening to throw an atomic bomb
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How convincing is the Kalam argument as proof of the existence of Allah The first premise is relatively uncontroversial‚ and is rooted in the metaphysical principle that out of nothing‚ nothing comes. The denial of the first premise‚ although strictly logically possible‚ is metaphysically unactualizable. By definition‚ nothing has no potentialities. Thus‚ it is impossible for something to arise out of nothing‚ for how can its existence be actualized if the potential is not there? The truth of the
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The formula of humanity would also denied permission to torture. However this two ideologies have very different reasons for disagreeing. While the principle of utility focuses in a more consequentialist approach the formula of humanity looks more into a humanitarian reasoning. They look at the action in two very
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answer to any scenario and each scenario must be evaluated carefully and thoroughly. Torture has proven to be an extremely effective tool so putting an all out ban on it would have quite a few repercussions‚ especially in the war on terror. Could the United States really justify losing access to terrorist information in order to be more humane? Each author brought up very good points for each side of the argument. Yoo explained how the Geneva Convention does not apply when dealing with the war on
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Reflection Over the semester in ***** Global Studies II: Human Rights and Responsibility‚ we covered many topics regarding the subject of human rights including what qualifies as human rights and who can enforce these rights. Although I have not personally witnessed violations of human rights to the extent that we covered in class‚ I now have a greater understanding of what my responsibilities are as a human being as well as human rights as a whole. I think one of the most important concepts
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democracy. If there were to be a vote today to decide if the CIA would be allowed to continue in the practice of using EITs on terror suspects‚ it would pass. This is a crucial fact that should have a profound impact on ones understanding of the argument in favor of EITs. EITs are a well-supported and respected aspect of national security‚ and should be treated as such. In addition to the overwhelming public support for the use of EITs‚ the same ABC News survey found that 53% of Americans believe
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He is infinitely good (pg. 125). The first argument offered concludes there must be a first mover‚ “and this everyone understands to be God” (pg. 126). His first argument does not prove the unmoved mover is good or bad. Aquinas‚ like most‚ understand God to be the original mover and infinitely good. Can we take Aquinas’ first argument as any proof of God’s existence? I believe not. Aquinas must argue such a creator is all good. Aquinas’ fourth argument puts all beings on the good/bad scale. There
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answer is quite simple‚ we can explore the several arguments for and against His existence. The first argument we will indulge in is the cosmological argument. A cosmological argument is an argument that states that everything in the universe is dependent on something greater. For this to be true‚ at the end of a long line there would have to be an omnipotent‚ omniscient‚ and benevolent being. These contingencies on a
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