Explain the cosmological argument for the existence of God (25 marks) Thomas Aquinas famously formulated his version of the cosmological or "first cause" argument. According to this argument‚ the things which we see around us now are the products of a series of previous causes. But that series cannot go back in time forever. Thus there must be some first cause which was not itself caused by anything else. And that first uncaused cause is God. A lot of the argument is based on Aristotelian views
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tradition” (“Hebrew”). The Hebrews first appeared in Mesopotamia and then migrated from Mesopotamia to Canaan and then into Egypt and back to Canaan. The Hebrew people were different. For them‚ there was only one god‚ Yahweh. This was a fundamental difference between the Hebrews and their neighbors in the ancient Middle East. The Egyptians‚ Babylonians‚ and others did not worship Yahweh. “Not Reason but Revelation was the cornerstone of the Hebrew faith” (“Religion”). Yahweh was the focus
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Potsdam Conference of July 1945 o Long-avoided differences over eastern Europe finally surged to the fore o Compromising Roosevelt had died and been succeeded by determined Harry Truman Demanded immediate free elections in eastern Europe Stalin refused point-blank‚ because they would all be anti-Soviet - Here
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constructivist approach. On the ontological front‚ the formal model proposed in the previous chapter reflects the acceptance in the present study of the core ontological tenets of constructivism. Namely‚ I modeled constructivism’s two core ontological tenets: (1) that “social reality is constructed” and social agents are the “social constructors of their own practices and structures;” and (2) that the agent-constructed social world informs agents’ interests and thereby circumscribes what they see as possible
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What are the differences between traditional and new media? New media is a phenomenon which has changed many aspects of our everyday communication habits. But what is the importance of new media for the business and what advantages or disadvantages does it give to the PR practitioners? 1. Message spread The potential of new media to reach wider audience in a short time presents a significant advantage to the PR practitioners. The ability to share information on the social media platforms make
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Unfortunately‚ it is true that there are times when officers must take down a wrongdoer in order to protect the lives an innocent person or group of people. The most efficient and promising way to do so is with the use of lethal force. This argument uses utilitarianism to justify the decision police officers must make to save an entire crowd or group of people by using deadly force to stop a person who is proposing a dangerous threat. A utilitarian scholar‚ John Stuart Mill establishes the Greatest
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Eva and Miriam Mozes were one set of twins who lived to tell the story of what Mengele did to them at Auschwitz. Eva and Miriam arrived at Auschwitz in May of 1944 after having spent the past month in a run-down ghetto. When they first arrived at Auschwitz with matching burgundy dresses‚ an SS officer spotted them immediately
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“a persistent pattern of humiliation that endures for years in a community‚ both the victim and victimizer find ways of obscuring the harm that is being done” (Hallie 6). The difference between the two is that in second‚ the victim and victimizer do not see anything wrong with superiority and inferiority because that is what they believe should happen.
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was completely the opposite of what Stanislavski was hoping for and there was a lot of conflict between them and their directing styles. At one point‚ in rehearsals‚ Craig proposed to Stanislavski that everything in the play should be “conveyed without words”‚ to which Stanislavski replied‚ “Yes‚ but that would not be Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It would be a new art founded on the theme of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” This quote tells us a great a deal about the difference between Craig’s symbolist and Stanislavski’s
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are many differences between the trains and the railway systems in Europe and North America. Both are very unique‚ and are shaped by the environment‚ the history‚ the people and the geography of the region or country that they are in. Some railways are even completely different from most of the others in their country‚ depending on their history. Some are more advanced‚ and others still have a nostalgic air to them. All in all‚ every railway is unique. One of the biggest differences between the railways
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