writing an argument about if God truly exists. At the same time‚ Anselm is explaining how and why God is “something-than-which-nothing-greater-can-be-thought”. Anselm is arguing for one of the most famous versions of the “ontological argument for the existence of God‚” which was an argument based purely on the logic of God’s way of being. In this passage‚ Anselm is speaking to God. He is speaking to God to try to understand that he exists‚ as we think God does‚ and that God is what we believe God to
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Descartes reminisces on what he knows is certain. He opens this review by first being doubtful of all bodies‚ but absolutely certain of his existence since he needs existence to think and doubt. Therefore‚ if he is anything‚ it is that he is a “thinking thing” with all these capabilities to help him make sense of the world. Descartes thus is certain that he is a “thinking thing” with the ability to will‚ understand and imagine in addition to doubt. He states that this is a clear and distinct perception
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non-believers the existence of God and the idea that the mind is separate from the body (Descartes 2). By doing this Descartes abandoned everything he once deemed as true to create a new foundation of indubitable truths. However‚ by doing this he creates a problem amongst the community‚ he stresses that in order to understand these truths we must reject prejudice ideas and withdraw from the senses (Descartes 7). Before attempting to solve the existence of God Descartes talks about the existence of the mind
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AQUINAS’ AND ANSELM’S ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD IN SYLLOGISTIC FORM Aquinas [I] Aquinas’ First Argument‚ Motion (1) Objects are in motion. (2) If something is in motion‚ then it must be caused to be in motion by something outside of itself. (3) There can be no infinite chain of movers/movees. (4) So there is a first‚ unmoved mover. (5) Therefore‚ God exists. [II] Aquinas’ Second Argument‚ Causality (1) Some events cause other events. (2) If an event happens
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paper. His sense of existence is relevant to me and how I will answer my topic’s questions. Moving further into the weeks I noticed that my thoughts on life changed. I no longer took many things for granted and saw my own life siting in the middle of materialism. This needed to change‚ the philosophical questions I now asked myself became complex. An example is one question in particular. How do I exist without the everyday “stuff” I think I need. I have found that existence is not physical but
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In reference to Wikipedia‚ the definition of ghosts is “a ghost is the soul or spirit of a deceased person or animal that can appear‚ in visible form or other manifestation‚ to the living.” In my opinion‚ ghosts do exist. Of course they do. The existence of ghosts can be proved by unexplainable paranormal activities. Nevertheless‚ they have a strong connection with religions‚ explaining the whole logic and theory on the occurring of paranormal activities. Based on the statistics on Wikipedia
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ontological argument. Gaunilo and Kant both had objections to Anselms ontological argument. While Kant argued that the problem in the argument lay in it’s claim that existence is it’s predicate‚ Gaunilo argued that there must be something wrong with it even though he could not identify a specific fault. Kant argued that existence cannot be a predicate because it does not add any new information to an understanding of the subject. To say that something exists is not genuinely communicating anything
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convince others of the time to decide whether or not they believed in the existence of God. Pascal sought to convince the religious skeptics and people of Libertine lifestyles to “wager” their belief that God exists. The hedonistic and self-pleasurable lifestyle led by the Libertines had a tendency to not have any significance or relevancy to the lifestyle of religious devotion. He argued that one is unable to determine the existence of God because he is “infinitely beyond our comprehension” (Wager 101)
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a few things first. The first thing we need to look at is the philosophers we are going to use to see the important of math in philosophy. The first philosopher we will use is Descartes‚ who is a rationalist and uses mathematics to prove his own existence. The second philosopher we will be using is Leibniz‚ who is also a rationalist and using mathematics as a basis of all his philosophical theories. The last person we will be using was not a philosopher‚ but a pure mathematician. His name is Euler
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he sees within it a higher truth. He realizes that even though the clouds are a temporary threat to Jupiter‚ a day will come when the existence of Jupiter will end. In fact‚ the sun and the stars will all expire. But Whitman has faith that there is a being in the universe that will endure‚ long after all the stars have burned out. Whitman hints at the existence of a deity here‚ but the characteristics of that deity are
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