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    philosophers of epistemology are rationalist Rene Descartes and empiricist David Hume. Rationalism is the idea that reason and logic are the foundation of knowledge. It states that awareness is instinctive‚ and that it cannot come from sources such as the senses. Rationalists theorize that people are all born with the foundations

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    David Hume and John Locke were both well known radical empiricists of their time. They were more radical because not only did believe in empiricism‚ but they strongly disagreed with innatism. Locke even went as far as to spend his entire book I in his “ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING” attacking innatism. They not only believe that all ideas derive from experience but they strongly oppose innatism. Descartes believed in innatism‚ that we are born with ideas and knowledge in our minds already

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    "Is the Existence of Evil incompatible with the existence of God?" "Without darkness there can be no light (Shestov)." This quote says a lot about our world as we know it. To truly know something we must also know it’s opposite. We would not know silent if there was not sound. There would be no young if we did not know old. So how could we believe that there is a good without an evil? To believe in the existence of a greatest good‚ which we call God‚ there must also be exist a source of evil as

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    Section twelve on the Enquiry sees Hume concerned with scepticism‚ and begins part one with the question of how far one may push the philosophical principles of doubt and uncertainty. In doing so‚ Hume outlines two types of scepticism‚ antecedent and consequent‚ and asserts that each type of scepticism exists in both strong and moderate forms. In its strong form‚ antecedent scepticism – which Hume attributes to Descartes – calls all our opinions‚ and even our faculties‚ into doubt‚ and posit that

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    the natural world are symbolic of a divine creator‚ just as the intricate design of a watch may imply the existence of a skilled watchmaker. Paley’s analogy has played a significant role in the development of natural theology and continues to be discussed in debates about the existence of God and the relationship between science

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    Philosophy‚ René Descartes outlines his proof for the existence of God. However‚ philosopher David Hume offers a rebuttal in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding that questions not only Descartes’ proof for God but also his notion concerning how humans acquire knowledge. In what follows‚ I will examine Descartes’ proof for God’s existence and then argue that Hume would disagree with it. Furthermore‚ Hume responds to Descartes’ claims that God is the source of our knowledge by asserting that we

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    INTRODUCTION The question of God is a perennial subject of debate in the history of philosophical scholarship and can be located in nearly all the epochs of philosophy. The subject however occupies a central space in the medieval epoch that was characterized by religious thinkers. The debate is largely between two schools of thought. There are those who opine that there is no such entity as God. To such thinkers‚ the question of God does not amount to anything but is largely a product of human

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    to the atheist that God exists. There are many different forms of the ontological argument for the existence of God. The first being an argument postulated by Anselm in the Proslogian. The ontological argument is a priori meaning knowledge is independent of experience an analytical meaning from logic. The Ontological argument follows the analytic method of knowledge; in this instance‚ for example‚ this is to be found when Anselm reaches the conclusion of God by analysing God himself. The argument

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    The Cosmological argument is a philosophical argument for the existence of God. It is explained that everything has a reason‚ is the first reason‚ the first reason is of no significance. The cosmological view tries to prove the existence of God by observing the universe. Scientists believe that the universe must have a beginning‚ it needs something to give it existence. So that we can contact to GodGod is always there‚ no reason‚ no beginning‚ no limit‚ beyond time‚ is infinite. Moreover‚ according

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    The Ontological Argument P| 1. Definition: God is that being than which no greater being can be conceived. P| 2. God exists in the mind (we think of God). A| 3.Assume God exists only in the mind but not in reality (Atheism) 3 4. Then we can conceive of a being just like God but which also exists in reality. P | 5. Existence is perfection. If two things are alike in all respects except the first exists in reality and the second

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