Evaluation There have been many theories for and against the existence of God. For example: the Faith- based Arguments‚ Pascal’s Wager‚ James’s Will to Believe‚ the Contingency Argument and several more. The argument being analysed here however is Ontological argument given by St. Anselm and its counter-argument. In St. Anselm’s argument‚ God has been thought by the definition: ‘the entity (or being) than which none greater can be conceived’ 1 in the human mind and does not depend upon the world
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ETHICS Chapter 1 (Individual) NAME: LIM EU JIN (1000121) INTAKE: BATCH 8 SEMESTER: YEAR 2 SEMESTER 1 PROGRAMME: BSc. BUSINESS & MARKETING LECTURER: MR. R. RAVINDRAN BUSINESS ETHICS(CHAPTER 1) Short Answer Questions TELEOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS 1. Compare and contrast the Ethical Egoism and Utilitarianism frameworks. Ethical Egoism‚ from the viewpoint of a business entity‚ maintains that companies should act strictly in line with their own interest. While this sounds
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that it’s impossible to demonstrate all perfections are incompatible with one another‚ and so it must be said that all perfections can coexist in a single entity‚ thus keeping Descartes argument valid. 2.2.6 David Hume David Hume argued that ontological arguments were not possible at all; he believed that nothing
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Organizational Knowledge creation Knowledge creation is a dynamic capability that enables firms to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage on the market. The most important models elaborated for organizational knowledge creation are: Nonaka’s model‚ Nissen’s model‚ Boisot’s model and the EO_SECI model. The two predominant goals of organization are the generation and the application of knowledge‚ because the capacity to generate and apply organizational knowledge is the source of competitive
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‘Even though there is not enough evidence to establish God’s existence‚ it is still more rational to choose to believe there is a God‚ then to believe there is not.’ Discuss. Is it rational to choose to believe in God? The proof of God’s existence has been attempted by many a philosopher and argument‚ yet on countless occasions the reason of the argument has been flawed. Philosophers such as Pascal‚ James‚ Kierkegaard‚ Plantinga and Freud each have there own arguments on the matter of whether
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CONTENTS Preface to the Vintage Edition xv Introduction 3 Part One THE COSMOLOGICAL DEBATE 9 1. The Big Bang Never Happened 11 2. A History of Creation 58 3. The Rise of Science 85 4. The Strange Career of Modern Cosmology 113 5. The Spears of Odin 169 6. The Plasma Universe 214 Part Two IMPLICATIONS 281 7. The Endless Flow of Time 283 8. Matter 328 9. Infinite in Time and Space 382 10. Cosmos and Society 405 Appendix 425 Bibliography 431 Index 441 XIII PREFACE TO THE VINTAGE EDITION
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research as the nature of being‚ reality and existence‚ it also discuss about the relationship between each categories of being. ‘An ontology is a specification of a conceptualization.’(Gruber‚ 1993: 199). Objectivism ‘Objectivism is an ontological position that asserts that social phenomena and their meanings have an existence that is independent of social actors. It implies that social phenomena and the categories that we use in every day discourse have an existence that is independent or
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divided into two major types‚ teleological and deontological. In teleological theories‚ (moral) right is derived from a theory of the (non-moral) good‚ or what is good or desirable as an end to be achieved. In Greek‚ telos means ‘goal’ or ‘aim.’ In deontological theories‚ (moral) right is derived without a theory of (non-moral) good‚ or what choice is (morally) right regardless of the end consequences. In Greek‚ deon means ‘duty.’ Utilitarian theories are teleological. What Utilitarianism is (preliminary
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does not exist? Why? There is no adequate evidence that God exists‚ nor is there adequate evidence that God does not exist. We are looking for evidence god exists‚ so we turned to an evidential argument in favor of God: the cosmological argument. According to the cosmological argument‚ if every positive fact that has ever obtained has an explanation‚ then there must have existed at least one self-existent thing. It cannot be know whether such a being still exists‚ or if it satisfies any particular
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because moral intuition is too disputed‚ that no two schools of thought actually agree on it. In this paper‚ I seek to prove that moral intuition is in fact a standard by which human action should be judged‚ because moral intuition recognizes the ontological value of human beings‚ is foundational and self-evident‚ and that it is ordered toward the natural law. Utilitarianism has proven to have dire consequences for our world‚ and this is because of its denial of moral intuition. John Stuart Mill
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