Ontological Argument: An explanation and critical assessment Phil 361 Lec 01 Professor: Reid Buchanan Ryley Braun‚ 10013764 April 16‚ 2010 The ontological argument is an attempt to refute skepticism of God and prove His existence through reason alone. The philosopher‚ Saint Anselm‚ presented his work on the ontological argument‚ or argument from reason‚ in his text the Proslogium. The argument‚ on the surface‚ is very logically convincing and attempts to allure even the skeptic of God. Anselm
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Do you believe in God? If so‚ at some point in time‚ someone convinced you that God does exist. They used one of the ten arguments listed herein. How solid are these arguments and how do they stand up to basic science and reason? Since the dawn of civilization there have been many arguments for the existence of God. Surprisingly‚ the vast majority of these arguments fall into the ten or so categories below. Not much has changed in the last 300+ years in terms of new claims or evidence. The same
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Sarah Robledo Elizabeth Ferguson ENG 121-133 3 December 2014 The Existence of Bigfoot George Bernard Shaw once said‚ “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” One might associate this when it comes to the “myth” regarding Bigfoot. Bigfoot‚ also known as a Sasquatch or Yeti‚ is described to be a Bi-pedal Humanoid. According to the North America Bigfoot Search website‚ the species ranges from seven to nine feet tall‚ 600-800 pounds‚ and can run up to a speed of thirty-five miles per hour. Its strength
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had events occurred differently‚ the whole direction of the war‚ and the result‚ might have differed. It is my opinion that the Battle of the Somme is the most crucial turning point of WW1. This might seem like a strange choice‚ given that this battle‚ above all‚ seems to represent the disastrous stalemate that locked the western front for most of the war. However in this essay I will argue that the Battle of the Somme achieved its central purpose‚ and began the inevitable decline and eventual defeat
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(Design/creation) argument Teleological arguments are arguments from the order in the universe to the existence of God. The name “the teleological argument” is derived from the Greek word telos‚ meaning end or purpose. The most plausible suggestion is that the universe is so because it was created by an intelligent being in order to accomplish that purpose‚ than it is so to suppose that it is this way by chance. William Paley made the most cited statement of the argument‚ and he linked the
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of God What I learned about the Doctrine of God is God’s existence‚ first of all. God existence is definitely taken for granted in the Bible. The writers of the Old and New Testament knew God existed so they thought it pointless to put it in there. Jacobi said‚ “A God capable of proof is no God at all.” So if God had to prove He existed‚ then that would take all of the power out of God Being God. So‚ in the Bible God existing is an understood matter. The arguments for the existence of God
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MORAL ARGUMENT How do we explain the fact that people often refrain from immoral acts even when there is no risk of their being caught? There are many formulations of the moral argument but they all have as their starting point the phenomenon (fact) of moral conscience. In essence the moral argument poses the question: where does our conscience‚ our sense of morality come from if not from God? It also asserts that if we accept the existence of objective moral laws we must accept the existence of
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Independent task 2: What is the invention which impacted on the world most? In today’s world‚ with the growing technologies‚ the investments became more high qualities‚ such as small‚ light and faster. Some people state that the most important investments in these days is global transportations which gives us more opportunities to travel more faster and to visit more varieties of places in the world. Other people might say that is a computer which gives us the way to do calculation faster and
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this……Write a 1-page essay about the following: As we have discussed‚ there are four sociological explanations of racial-ethnic inequality (page 192 - table 10.3). They are: Functionalist‚ Conflict‚ Feminist and Symbolic Interactionist. • Which theory do you find the most persuasive? Why? "Feminism" is about equality of the sexes‚ and activism to achieve such equality for women. Not all feminist theorists have agreed about how to achieve that equality and what equality looks like. Here are some of the
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To what extent is the cosmological argument weak? Although the cosmological argument is a strong argument for the theory that the universe it is a weak argument for the existence of the classical theological God. Thomas Aquinas was a very important man to the cosmological argument; it was him who came up with some of the strongest theories to support the argument. He came up with his five proofs which to him proved the cosmological argument to be true. One of his proof was the ‘cause’ proof
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