whether the ontological argument demonstrates the existence of God. (30 marks) The ontological argument was first formulated by St. Anselm in the 11th century. It argues the existence of God from a deductive and a priori stance. God is a being than which none greater can be conceived. This is the response given by St Anselm to the fool in the psalm who believed there was no God. St Anselm the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Benedictine Order explained that for God to exist in the mind he would
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Does God Exist ? 1. What role do arguments play in answering this question? I think arguments have played an important role in analyzing and understanding the depth of this question‚ for mankind. Although the question itself seems factual (either it does or it doesn ’t)‚ yet no arguments have been able to answer this question conclusively‚ despite many debates going on for centuries. One possible reason for that inconclusiveness may lie in our intuition and the way‚ humans define God and existence
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Hermes was the Greek god of commerce‚ athletes‚ literature‚ poetry‚ invention‚ trade‚ roads‚ boundaries‚ shepherds‚ merchants‚ music‚ luck‚ riches‚ good fortune and travellers. His name ’Hermes’ literally means ’boundary marker’. He is quick acting‚ cunning‚ adventurous and reflected as a trickster for his ingenious personality. Hermes the second youngest of the Olympian gods‚ is son of Zeus and the mountain Nymph Maia‚ goddess of clouds‚ one of the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas and one of the
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Islam A Religion Profile from International Students‚ Inc. Islam: An Overview hand-picked its own deity and came to Mecca each year to pay homage to its god. Number of Adherents The adherents of Islam number more than 1.2 billion‚ or between 19 and 22 percent of the world’s population. Islam is the second largest religion in the world and is growing at about 2.9 percent per year‚ faster than the total world population growth. It was the custom of those who were spiritually minded to
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existence persuasive‚ and I will go over each argument one at a time to explain why I do not find them persuasive‚ starting with Anselm’s ontological argument‚ then Aquinas’ cosmological argument‚ and finally Paley’s teleological argument. First‚ Anselm’s ontological argument is not persuasive because the argument can be used to prove things that do not exist. The faulty logic is shown in Gaunilo’s Lost Island Objection because instead of putting God as the thing to prove‚ Guanilo puts an island
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Heavenly Father again and again‚ we might grow tired of waiting. It might begins to feel like our prayers are falling on deaf ears. Tired of waiting for His replies to our prayers‚ tired of waiting for Jesus our Savior to return. These tiredness are for God to test our patience. Patience reveals our faith in God’s timing‚ omnipotence‚ and love. The course of life is not easy. We have to face a lot of struggles in our lives. We have to suffer mental torment and physical agony. As things go the
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disregard any role medieval thinking plays in the general development of both renaissance and post renaissance philosophy up till today. It would be a mistake to take it that Descartes‚ Locke achieved a total radical break from the past and inaugurated a completely new philosophical era. One cannot understand scholars like Descartes or Locke without having some real knowledge of medieval thinking. Thus‚ in this essay‚ I wish to show that Aquinas‚ a thinker of the middle ages‚ thought on knowledge is
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knowledge‚ then‚ is to prove that god does indeed exist. Descartes’s starting point for such a proof is the principle that the cause of any idea must have at least as much reality as the content of the idea itself. But since my idea of god has an absolutely unlimited content‚ the cause of this idea must itself be infinite‚ and only the truly existing god is that. In other words‚ my idea of god cannot be either adventitious or factitious (since I could neither experience god directly nor discover the concept
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The humorists “A good god would exclude evil’’ Many philosophers including David Hume took many topics very serious. One of them was god. Could there possibly be a man so powerful and wise‚ but yet unfair enough to create a world so unbalanced‚ and evil? “The human mind is incapable of understanding the nature of god’’ (David Hume) According to Hume the striving for survival; self-deprivation‚ the limited powers of all creatures to confront their problems‚ the laws of nature‚ and the weird
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Part B. The ontological argument is a convincing argument. Discuss. The ontological argument was first made famous in the 11th century by St Anslem from Canterbury and was later taken further by French philosopher Rene Descartes. The debate is an attempt to confirm God’s existence as a priori argument. It does not rely on observations of the world around us it simply uses logic and the idea that it is illogical to say that God does not exist as its main factor. There are three elements to St
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