I do not find any of the traditional proofs for God’s 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
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The determinists and fatalists also have plausible arguments against free will. One argument against free will‚ although not deterministic or fatalistic‚ states that God contradicts free will of all living beings including itself. If God is omniscient‚ meaning it knows all‚ it should already know all of its future actions along
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Hume’s Induction‚ Problem of Induction‚ and the inductive Reasoning based upon Empirical science: We all believe that we have knowledge of facts extending far beyond those we directly perceive. Though our views of events are dependent and limited to both space and time‚ and our experiences are limited‚ we still construct the hypothetical prediction of future. For example‚ lets say as a normal farmer‚ you see plants dying because of hot sun so you decided build shed to save them in future. At the
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that is not responsible. Reasonable people will disagree about when torture is justified. I disagree that torture will be justified because people are going to still kill people on the behalf of their behavior and anger issue. Some people just have problems in their life for them to torture innocent people that don’t harm a fly. Certainly‚ torturing an innocent person to death is worse than a murder. Torture doesn’t necessarily involve killing‚ and torturers necessarily have the power of life or death
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Hume’s Problem Of Induction In A Treatise of Human Nature‚ Hume challenges the traditional theories of causality‚ the idea that one can make an observation about two events and infer a new claim concerning the conjunction of the first event and the “resulting” second event. Instead of accepting this notion of causality‚ Hume questions the certainty of matters of fact and more specifically induction. Hume states there are two distinct types of knowledge: relations of ideas and matters of fact
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JOHN HICK’S THE PROBLEM OF EVIL I. John Hick discusses in his essay The Problem of Evil‚ the objections to the belief in the existence of God is the presence of evil in the world. He begins by posing the traditional challenge to theism in the form of the dilemma: That if God was perfectly loving‚ he must wish to abolish evil‚ and being all powerful‚ is able to perfectly do so as he will its. He then proceeds to present some views regarding this issue‚ giving insights from three point of views
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in Peters‚ 1985). This definition is the foundation for the understanding of torture in modern times. It is now looked at not only in terms of physical pain‚ but mental stress and damage as well‚ (ScienceDaily‚ 2009). The United Nations Committee against Torture is responsible for monitoring states and ensuring that they are complying with their duties depicted in the treaty’s resolutions and articles‚ (McQuigg‚ 2011). The Universal Declaration of
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The debate between Physicalism and Anti-Physicalism has been an on going argument for a good amount of time. Physicalism is said to be the view that the all things are physical or they rely on other objects that are physical. Many philosophers who are said to be or seem to be anti-physicalists have argued against this theory. Anti-physicalists stance on the matter is that anything that pertains to the mind or the conscious cannot depend on physicality nor is physicality. Nagel has a stance on his
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articulate more specifically the thesis of presentism and show the main arguments of the opposite position known as eternalism. I will then outline the special theory and its consequences for the metaphysics of presentism. I will consider some of the problems that presentism faces in the relativistic context by considering Putnam’s “man on the street” argument. From there I will address some of the solutions to these problems proposed by presentists. Ultimately I look to demonstrate that
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that is 6‚000 people dead that year. If 2‚000 women have an abortion every day‚ that’s 730‚000 innocent babies killed each year. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t go after the terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan; I’m just saying we have a way larger problem right here in the United States. It is a fact: more than 1‚000‚000 babies a year are killed by
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