Principal Issues with Epistemology Earnell Branson PHL/215 June 18‚ 2012 Dr. Anne M. Edwards Principal Issues with Epistemology Society has attempted to decipher what is real. The idea of what is real and what is understood has been a problem for societies. The different societies and cultures believed in other beings such as different God’s. Greek society was a leader in worshipping and believing in God’s that perceived to be real in their minds and culture. Worshipping these God’s begun
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Chapter 3 – Why does anything at all exist? G. W. Leibniz‚ codiscoverer of calculus and a towering intellect of 18th century Europe‚ wrote: “The first question which should rightly be asked is “Why is there something rather than nothing?” -“The Principles of Nature and of Grace‚ Based on Reason” His conclusion was that the answer is to be found‚ not in the universe of created things‚ but in God. God exists necessarily and is the explanation why anything else exists. LEIBNIZ’s Argument There
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Metaphysics The “Basic” Argument for Theological Fatalism Fatalism Fatalism is the view that everything that happens in entirely unavoidable. Since everything that happens is unavoidable‚ none of our actions are genuinely up to us and we powerless to do anything other than what we actually do. Here is Richard Taylor on what the fatalist believes [“Fate” from Metaphysics‚ 4th Ed (Pearson‚ 1991)]: “A fatalist is someone who believes that whatever happens is and always was unavoidable.
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Since consciousness has formed humans have questioned their presence on earth and the location of where this existence originated‚ some used reason and others faith which brought religious philosophy. In the medieval philosophical period religion presumably Christianity was a basis of the majority of ideological views. One of the largest philosophers at the time was Thomas Aquinas. Questioning the existence of god was frowned upon in medieval philosophy because it questioning would change the system
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I chose to describe the cartoon at the top of page 317. Sartre explains that nothingness separated himself from him. The cartoon shows a teenager facing a wall with an X on it. In front of the X marked wall is a middle age man looking backwards‚ and in front of him is another wall with an X on it. In front of that X marked wall is an old man facing forward. I believe this all has to do with change with in our own existence. Who we were as children and teenagers are not who we are as middle age
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Does God Exist? It is one of the most asks questions around the world still to this day. A controversial topic which doesn’t have an answer. No way to prove‚ or disprove the concept that there is someone or something else that has created the universe we live in. But what is the definition of God? The definition of God is that He is omniscient (all knowing)‚ omnipotent (all powerful)‚ and omnibenevolent (morally perfect and all loving). This definition is most used in Philosophy of Religion and is
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Baudrillard and Contemporary Artist Shannon McDonell Post Structuralism Diane Zeeuw December 6th‚ 2012 We live in the world of science fiction. With our ipods‚ iphones‚ tablets‚ laptops‚ etc. we have a vast amount of information on our finger tips. Through all of our online networks‚ blogs‚ websites‚ etc. we have a whole virtual world online. Baudrillard would term this as hyper reality where there is so much information exchanged that the foundation of our reality has changed. We
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The Link between Reality and Imagination Some people‚ such as the world’s greatest artists and scientists have vast imaginations that transcends reality. But other people have a blurred line between the link between imagination and reality‚ so they can’t make sense of what is real and what is not real. The truth is‚ the similarity between reality and imagination occurs in our mental psyche. According to Annie Murphy Paul in “Your Brain on Fiction‚” the brain does not make a complete distinction
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Reality Vs. Illusion It is human nature for every person to have a vision of a perfect world and a perfect life. This imaginary world is exactly what Blanche DuBois has created for herself in A Streetcar Named Desire. In this story by Tennessee Williams the theme of reality vs. illusion plays a very vital role on the story and its characters. The fact that Blanche is so far wrapped in the illusion of what her world is has played a big role in misconstruing the reality of what her life has
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1. Who is considered the author of the Ontological argument? ANS: Saint Anslem 2. The first 3 “Ways” by St. Thomas Aquinas (to prove the existence of God) are called: a. argument from design b. argument from perfection c. cosmological argument d. none of the above. ANS: Cosmological argument 3. Explain the thrid way by Aquinas...which is called the argument from contigency. (2 or 3 sentences) ANS: Contingency can be explained as the possibility of things that come into being and go out of being
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