Explain Anselm’s Ontological argument (25 marks) Anselm‚ Archbishop of Canterbury and a monk was the creator of the Ontological Argument. The main aspect behind the argument was that the existence of God was true‚ in simple words‚ God exists. The argument is deductive as it depends only on knowledge and logic‚ not on experience as experiencing God is impossible physically. It is also a priori for similar reasons; the argument relies on logic alone. Anselm put forward his ideas about the existence
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Dr. Fortner ENGL 112 Visual Argument Analysis Essay 1st Draft February 4‚ 2013 Second Hand Smoking Effects All Imagine your life is trapped in a car seat‚ restrained under your seat belt with nowhere to turn. You see the flash of the lighter flicker and begin to dread the next ten to twenty minutes of the car ride praying you are almost to your destination. You start to imagine how that person can really live with himself or herself knowing they are taking away from your healthy
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Ramiro Munoz Professor Jones English 101 11 August 2014 Visual Argument It is believed that a picture is worth a thousand words‚ and that cannot be any more true than in regards to anti-drunk driving propaganda. These campaigns expose the harsh reality behind drinking and driving‚ with the anticipation that they will reduce the amount of fatal crashes that unfortunately happen on a daily basis. The images shown are often graphic and unsettling‚ a technique used by the campaigns in order to
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My thesis is that war is ethically wrong. My main argument goes as follows: Any action that kills an innocent person without their direct consent is ethically wrong; war kills innocent people without their direct consent. Therefore war is ethically wrong. The first premise of my main argument states that any action that kills an innocent person without their direct consent is ethically wrong. On average‚ many people would agree with this statement. To kill an innocent person for whatever reason
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ontological argument as presented by Anselm‚ and explain its purpose. The ontological argument is A priori argument for the existence of God. St Anselm is the name most firmly associated with the origins of the ontological argument and he was an 11 century writer and the Archbishop of Canterbury. The argument has the form of a deductive proof and it an analytical argument. He wrote two treatises (the Monologion and Proslogion) which became the foundation of the Ontological Argument. The reasoning
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To asses the strengths of the Ontological Argument for Gods existence‚ we firstly need to understand what it entails. The Ontological Argument looks at proof ’A Priori’‚ which is Analytical truth‚ reason based proof. This can be explained by saying 1+1=2. We know this to be true‚ as it is based on reasoning‚ and is a logical statement. This can be seen as a strength of the Ontological Argument‚ the fact that it is logical and rational. It deals with knowledge gained independently of experience‚ innate
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The theistic argument that I think is most plausible is the Cosmological Argument. I think this because to me this is the only argument that is plausible because things do not exist without a cause. For example‚ people and animals do not exist without reproduction. People must have a first cause to be created and exist. “The cosmological argument for God’s existence goes like this: The world could not exist on its own so there must have been a first cause that brought it into being. This first
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Each of the five arguments presented by St. Thomas Aquinas aims at helping people from around the world apprehend the existence of God. For instance‚ the fifth case‚ which mainly relies on design‚ utilizes ideas from the governance of the universe to make its stance. It thus maintains that the best explanation of the apparent function and purposefulness to be found in nature is that a vastly intelligent mind created the natural world. Precisely‚ individuals realize that natural bodies work towards
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Explain the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Design Argument for the existence of God. The design argument‚ also known as the argument of teleology‚ is the argument for the existence of God‚ or some kind of intelligent creator. Derived from the Greek word ‘telos’ meaning end or purpose‚ it is an a posteriori argument‚ because it is based on experience‚ not on reason or revelation‚ using the surroundings of the world as supporting evidence. The argument is an inductive one‚ as its reasoning can give way
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