Response Paper McCloskey Article (278.205 Kb) Having completed the unit of philosophy of religion‚ you are now ready to respond to an article written by an actual atheist. This article‚ titled “On Being an Atheist‚” was written by H. J. McCloskey in 1968 for the journal Question. McCloskey is an Australian philosopher who wrote a number of atheistic works in the 1960s and 70s including the book God and Evil (Nijhoff‚ 1974). In this article‚ McCloskey is both critical of the classical arguments
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unbelievable‚ organs as complicated as the heart or lungs function sequentially because of chance? That notion is not logical. In “Philosophy of Religion”‚ The Teleological Argument however is‚ stating that the world was created and exists with a purpose in mind. The universe is a ordered system and nothing is left to chance. The Teleological Argument is more believable than Russell’s ‘just because’ so called
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FIELD DEFINITION HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT KEY CONTRIBUTORS PRINCIPAL ISSUES Epistemology the theory of knowledge‚ is the branch of philosophy concerned with these questions a. Schools of thought and historical development 1) Skeptics a) Ancient (1) Pyrrho of Elis (2) Sextus Empiricus b) Medieval (1) St. Augustine 2) Rationalists a) Ancient (1) Plato b) Medieval (1) St. Anselm (2) St. Augustine c) Modern (1) Descartes (2) Leibniz (3) Spinoza 3) Empiricists
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places the bar even lower by referring to the “proofs of” rather than “arguments for” God’s existence‚ thereby overstating the Theist’s claim. With respect to the “proofs” for God’s existence that McCloskey attempts to deal with‚ namely the Cosmological and Teleological Arguments‚ McCloskey offers trivial objections that are easily answered. With respect to arguments for God’s non-existence‚ McCloskey offers the logical form of the problem of evil which‚ while rich in rhetoric‚ does not contain enough
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evidence for belief in God‚ I found the ontological argument to be the most difficult for which to muster support. Of course I agree that
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argument that atheism is more “reasonable and comfortable (McCloskey‚1968)” compared to the alternative theistic view. In his article‚ McCloskey attempts to make arguments against the three typical theistic proofs of God which includes the cosmological and teleological arguments‚ along with the argument from design. McCloskey uses the existence of evil and the irrationalness off faith against the theistic view of God. At the beginning of the article it seems that an intriguing argument will be made regarding
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moving must be set into motion by a mover. Therefore Aquinas concludes that in the beginning‚ there must have been an original unmoved mover that has set our world into motion. Aquinas’s second proof is the cosmological argument‚ which in some ways is similar to his first proof. The cosmological argument tackles the question of existence. Aquinas shows that one object or souls being can not be the source of its own existence. Therefore‚ at some point in time there would have to have been a source that
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because there are beings in the universe that do not have any explanation for their existence‚ one can infer that there must be some “ultimate” being responsible. The original cause of being is necessary because contingency cannot be infinite. The cosmological argument is the basis for why we may question the existence of anything‚ but it is not a sufficient enough answer to the bigger question of an all-powerful ultimate
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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’ Five Proofs What real evidence can be supplied for God’s existence? St. Thomas‚ in his Summa Theologica‚ sets forth five separate proofs for the existence of God‚ Unlike St. Anselm’s proof‚ which deals with pure concepts‚ St. Thomas’ proofs rely on the world of our experience-what we can see around us. In these proofs we can easily see the influence of Aristotle and his doctrine of the Four Causes. l) The Proof from Motion. We observe motion all around us. Whatever is in motion now
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