creation is. Gasking asserts that non-existence would be the greatest impairment to creating. Therefore if the universe was created by an existing creator he is not the greatest being that can be conceived‚ because a non-existent one would be greater. A non-existent creator is greater than one which exists‚ so God does not exist. His argument is a response to Anselm’s assumption that existence is a predicate of perfection. Using this logic he assumes that non-existence must be an impairment. This is‚ of
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MARY CELESTE The Mary Celeste was a ghost ship found off the coast of Portugal in 1872. The Mary Celeste is a ship was discovered atlantic ocean unmanned and apparently abandoned and she was fine and the people and it remain a mystery. Her cargo was virtually untouched and her crew was never seen or heard from again. The crew’s disappearance was the greatest mystery of all time. Eyewitness Account The only eyewitness is Captain Morehouse. Captain Morehouse said that he thought that the crew
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Howie Day Ghost Bonnie Raitt I Can’t Make You Love Me Coldplay The Scientist Avril Lavigne Why Kelly Clarkson Behind These Hazel Eyes The five aforementioned songs are meaningful in telling us something important about the American experience; however‚ they are certainly not your traditional blues songs. They are songs that many people have heard recently on the radio‚ and would probably be considered mainstream pop music. Regardless of genre‚ they can be considered be blues songs
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Meditations on First Philosophy‚ examines Descartes’ arguments for the existence of God. The purpose of this essay will be to explore Descartes’ reasoning and proofs of God’s existence. In the third meditation‚ Descartes states two arguments attempting to prove God’s existence‚ the Trademark argument and the traditional Cosmological argument. Although his arguments are strong and relatively truthful‚ they do no prove the existence of God. At the start of the meditation‚ Descartes begins by rejecting
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for God’s Existence In post-modern era‚ society is more inclined towards modern philosophy. This results in people to be composed of social construct and ideologies such as socialism‚ capitalism‚ feminism and progressivism. Thus‚ the causality of fragmentation in a Western society are due to the clash of conflicting ideologies. In order to counteract the ideology‚ one must argue the existence of God. It is a common reality which one can presuppose that a being or thing provide existence into an objective
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The Existence of God & The Evil in us All 1- Does God exist? (Anselm vs. Gaunilo) (Bertrand Russell) Does God Exist? St.Anselm‚ Archbishop of Canterbury “The Ontological Argument” claims to both prove and disprove God’s existence. However this arguments possess a certain sense of ambiguity‚ meaning that it can be interpreted in different ways and therefore come away with more than one sensible conclusion towards the existence of God. In this paper i will delve in to each argument and give reasons
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Dakota Ostler Professor Anderson Philosophy 150 22 February‚ 2013 Teleological Argument: Existence of God The teleological argument is one made for the existence of God. William Paley’s argument is based on the idea that the universe is too complicated to have been created by accident and so must have had a creator. This creator is assumed to be God‚ who has created the universe and all the parts in it serve a certain purpose. A close consideration of this argument will show that there are several
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is a Hindu‚ because his father is a Hindu; the majority of the people in the world are blindly following the religion of their fathers. An atheist‚ on the other hand‚ even though he may belong to a religious family‚ uses his intellect to deny the existence of God; what ever concept or qualities of God he may have learnt in his religion may not seem to be logical to him. My Muslim brothers may question me‚ "Zakir‚ why are you congratulating an atheist?" The reason that I am congratulating an atheist
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McCloskey There are many different types of arguments for the existence of God. With each argument there is a conception presented of God. For each argument there are different approaches. I will be focusing on the Cosmological and Teleological Arguments. Teleological Arguments are known to be arguments from divine‚ arguing from order in the universe to the existence of God (1).With the ordering of the universe‚ created by an intelligent being‚ they hold that
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Anagnorisis and Existence The Point of Realization in Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead In Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ the young prince realizes what living is. Yea‚ from the table of my memory I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records‚ 105 All saws of books‚ all forms‚ all pressures past‚ That youth and observation copied there; And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain‚ Unmix’d with baser matter
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