Polytheists: A theory that says that many gods govern the universe.\ Pantheists: A theory that says that a supreme being is everywhere and that everything in the universe contains the spirit of this being. Ontological argument: The area of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being and reality. Cosmological argument: An argument that says that a supreme being must exist because the chain of causes must have a
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by everyone. Aquina’s fifth argument for the existence of God is what has come to be called the Argument from Design. The Design argument is one of three arguments about the existence of God. The other two arguments are the cosmological argument and the ontological argument. The design argument continues on by evidence of intelligent design and of God’s existence as the best explained theory of creation. A design argument consists of an introduction that insists the universe possesses verifiable
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The first of them being the ontological argument which states that a) God is the greatest conceivable being‚ b) it is greater to exist than not to exist and so therefore God must exist. Another example includes the fact that life beginning‚ and still existing is the proof of God. That
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David Hume‚ a noted historian and philosopher‚ was Scotland’s most famous member of the 18th Century Enlightenment. Like Isaac Newton‚ Hume embraced radical skepticism and the inductive experimental method of scientific inquiry. He believed that everything we know comes from our senses. Hume attended Edinburgh University when he was in his teens. He hoped to become a professor‚ but was accused of being an atheist and was unable to find a position. Instead he spent his life traveling‚ tutoring‚ and
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promoting relative claims. Once the evangelist lays out the logic and standards of objective truth; the Christian evangelist moves on to show the necessity of God’s existence. The Christian evangelist would do well to know and present the cosmological‚ teleological‚ and moral arguments for God’s existence. The secular humanist should be shown that God’s existence is not only reasonable but also necessary to explain the existence of anything. This step could take a considerable amount of time depending
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Estela Garcia June 10‚ 2014 PHI 2010 Module 3: Chapter 13 & 15. 1. Explain and evaluate the notions of Karma‚ samsara‚ and Nirvana. - Karma‚ samsara and nirvana fall under the religion of Hinduism. When all of our actions bring consequences‚ either in this life or the next is referred as karma. Samsara means the cycle of birth and death. Us humans are basically good‚ but are caught up in a cycle of pure desire and also of suffering that is a direct result of ignorance and of the
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are concluded by scholars such as Aquinas (analogy of the archer)‚ Paley (analogy of the watch) and Tennant (anthropic principle). They use analogies and principles to draw arguments to their conclusions to the existence of God. The argument is teleological; it aims to prove that everything that God has designed has an end and a purpose. Firstly‚ one of the fundamental ideas of Design argument is how an unintelligent object needs to be directed by an intelligent being. Aquinas developed the analogy
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doubt‚ not falling into contradiction. Since the doubt is a form of thinking‚ he exists as a thinking being. Descartes also tried to prove the existence of God. He sought to establish the reality of the existence of God with the help of the ontological and cosmological arguments. There must be such a reality‚ which is the cause of itself‚ Descartes argued. He believed that the idea of a perfect being‚ can not be installed by him (as he is a finite imperfect being)‚ but only by the perfect
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→ ╙> ∴ Test 3: Monday following reading week Read Part 1 and 2‚ 10 and 11. Outline – God Religious Language: seeking meaningfulness (Existence of God is discussed later) Three Possible Ways for Speaking About God 1. Anthropomorphism (in the form of a person) mental (Is God anything like us‚ has a mind?) intelligence/moral qualities Anthropomorphic/Anthropomorphite “God is intelligent” understood literally‚ univocally (it has the same meaning whether applied to us or God)
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designation of a kind of fiction - beginning to proliferate in the 1960s - that turns its attention on its own narrative andlor linguistic identity. Too often‚ critics have one-sidedly labeled it as an example of the anti-novel‚ a reaction against the teleological realistic tradition. Its self-reflectiveness has also been denigrated as a sign of exhaustion for the novel genre: no new fields seem left to develop and therefore it has turned inward upon itself. Some critics would argue that in metafiction the
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