“It is pointless to deny the logical necessity of the existence of God.” First of all‚ we must ask: is the existence of God an analytic statement‚ or is it synthetic. An analytic statement is one which is impossible to think of as false. For example‚ a triangle having three internal angles which total 180 degrees is an analytic statement because it it impossible to think of a triangle in any other way. This therefore means that the proposition is logically necessary and it would be incoherent
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The question about the existence of God or‚ more generally speaking‚ of a supernatural entity that steers the course of the world‚ is probably as old as humanity itself. Many great philosophers were concerned with this basic and yet so important question which remains to be a controversial issue to this day! In the following I will commit myself to the above-mentioned question by firstly reconstructing Anselm´s proof of God´s existence and secondly considering his position in the light of the critique
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1. The UTRUM: "Whether or not it is the case that there is proof for God ’s existence." 2. The VIDETUR: "It seems that the existence of God can be proven in five ways by the Cosmological Argument." Saint Thomas Aquinas‚ put forth his own theory on the existence of God. In his text "Whether God Exists"‚ he stated that through his five arguments he could prove God ’s existence. His five arguments are from motion‚ from first efficient cause‚ from possibility and necessity‚ from gradation
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The belief in the Christian Gods existence has been a controversial issue for a very long time. The Holy Bible is a lot of things to a lot of people. To some‚ the Bible is a self-contradictory book about cultures from the distant past. Others‚ such as Christians‚ believe that it is a guide on how to live their daily lives and it is a source of inspiration. I personally believe that the existence of God is nonsensical. "If the truth is that ugly - which it is - then we do have to be careful about
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examine one of Descartes ’ arguments for the existence of God Descartes ’ Meditation III provides a causal and cosmological argument that God exists. Having used the Method of Doubt in Meditations I and II in order to reject his false beliefs‚ Descartes assumes that the only things he knows at this point are the conclusions reached at Meditations I and II. Having also doubted judgements in arithmetic and geometry because of the possibility of the existence of an evil demon‚ Descartes wishes to find
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Philosophy April 23. 2013 The Existence of God The existence of God has been questioned‚ pondered‚ sought out and studied for hundreds‚ no‚ thousands of years since the beginning of time. “Does God exist?” “What do certain philosophers have to say about the existence of God?” “What do Christianity and Atheism have to say?” “What about those who say they have experienced God?” “If He does exist‚ what is He like?” “Why does He allow bad things to happen
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The Existence of God Kimberly Mongold PHI 208 Ethics and Moral Reasoning Instructor Kenneth Mentor April 07‚ 2013 Since the beginning of time people have often questioned the meaning of life‚ how the universe was created and the purpose for the wildlife and creatures that roam the earth. These things often lead us to question the existence of God. In order to even begin to answer these complex questions we must uncover the source of all of these occurrences. In this paper I will
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Journal Reflection – Proofs for the Existence of God St. Thomas Aquinas’ 5 Ways St. Thomas Aquinas’ Five Ways (3) God either exists or doesn’t‚ believe what you want but many have argued over this ongoing topic including famous philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas‚ who created 5 ways to prove that God actually exists. I will be focusing on three of his ‘Five Ways’‚ which include the ideas that there has to be a first mover that had initially started everything in motion‚ there
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of the non-existence or existence of the traditional Christian God. II. Simply put we do not have enough evidence to know whether God exists or not‚ there are too many epistemological issues to pair with the limitations of human exploration. While many questions can be asked to raise inquiry about Gods existence‚ there are none that demonstrate it to be false or true. Therefore‚ both atheists and theists are wrong in their proclamations that it is possible to decipher Gods existence or not. While
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Rene Descartes and God’s Existence Rene Descartes was a French philosopher‚ mathematician and a scientist in the seventeenth century. As a man of science‚ Descartes wanted to make discoveries in science as factual as mathematics. With Descartes’s faith‚ he did not eliminate God from philosophy. Descartes‚ “The Father of Modern Philosophy”‚ was a Catholic who wrote the Meditations on First Philosophy. “The Meditations is characterized by Descartes’s use of methodic doubt‚ a systematic procedure
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