type of defense for followers of the Lord that highlights rational arguments for the existence of God and uses evidence to confirm biblical stories and miracles. There are five main arguments for the existence of God from a classical apologetic standpoint. The five main arguments being ontological‚ cosmological‚ teleological‚ moral‚ and resurrection. I will be discussing the moral and the teleological arguments. Knowing the arguments is vitally important. This is because you will be able to defend
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________________________________________ The best test of an argument is the argument’s ability to convince someone with an opposing viewpoint. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the statement and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position‚ you should consider ways in which the statement might or might not hold true and explain how these considerations shape your position. ________________________________________
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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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weaknesses of ontological argument The Ontological Argument was‚ and still is‚ a hot-topic for debate among philosophers; many famous philosophers have published criticisms of the theory including Immanuel Kant and St. Thomas Aquinas. This obviously raises questions regarding whether or not this argument works. While there is no clear-cut answer to these questions‚ I personally believe that the negatives of this argument outweigh the positives‚ thereby making it a weak argument. The first published
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This first stream of celebrity music fandom-as-religion literature demonstrates the type of argument many scholars favor when encountering expression of fan sentiment‚ fan action‚ and the structural and functional purpose of fandom. A second‚ smaller‚ stream of literature aligns or characterizes fandom as a cult‚ sometimes literally‚ while a third stream challenges the celebrity music fandom-as-religion argument. This
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STEPS IN EVALUATING AN ARGUMENT The following four steps are an efficient way to apply what you learned in this chapter—in other words‚ to evaluate your argument and overcome any errors in validity or truth that it may contain. 1. State your argument fully‚ as clearly as you can. Be sure to identify any hidden premises and‚ if the argument is complex‚ to express all parts of it. 2. Examine each part of your argument for errors affecting truth. (To be sure this examination is not perfunctory
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is highly to due to the substantive expertise of lawyers. Furthermore‚ the repeated appearance of a lawyer in front of courts can impose a reliable and trustworthy relationship between the lawyer and the judge‚ providing greater credit to their arguments and potentially impacting on the outcome of the hearing. It is important to apprehend the difficulties associated with self-representation‚ with Sandefur showing that thousands of those unrepresented in courts within the United Sates loose civil
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law they are considered to be the morally correct action‚ but when actions go against the law they are deemed immoral. The magisterium views homosexual acts to be against the natural law‚ because they are not considered to be complementary. This argument requires an acceptance that male-female sex is considered correct because anatomically male and female parts fit together‚ and have the capacity to create new life. This approach holds validity in that it accepts the biological necessity that life
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In his “Letters from a Birmingham jail‚” MLK pinpoints one of the biggest flaws in the anti-civil disobedience arguments. He states that many people more scrutinze the protest more closely than the “conditions that brought about the demonstrations.”(King‚ Jr) He calls this argument a “superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes.”(King‚ Jr.) MLK understood that he and the people
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The first argument is by J.J Thomson regarding abortion when it happens during consensual sex. She says that the woman has no obligation to keep the child‚ even though the woman had consensual sex and understood that she could become pregnant. Marquis talks about how everyone has a FLO account‚ and abortion would be killing‚ and killing causes premature death‚ so therefore‚ he believes that abortion is immoral in all cases including consensual sex. Judith Jarvis Thomson gives an analogy when it
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