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    L. & J.G. Stickley has passed the test of time from its inception in 1900. Its popularity has been rooted to the high quality furniture products exhibited by each worker in the industry so that the ends result of its furniture products‚ are outstanding. The company has also invested in production of its furniture using various kinds of wood. This form of diversity‚ use of cherry to mahogany wood has won the company extensive markets among them are 120 dealers in the United States. Today‚ L. & J.G

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    the First Meditation‚ Descartes gives us the Evil Demon Hypothesis which serves to give him reason to doubt the existence of everything he perceives and believes. He describes a ‘malicious demon of the utmost power and cunning’ that has the sole purpose of deceiving Descartes (Descartes‚ 2010: 17). I will argue that his hypothesis has proven to be a strong one because only the cogito provides a way for us to frustrate or trick the evil demon. The Evil Demon Hypothesis is an important component of

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    footsteps and made significant breakthroughs with J. L. Mackie’s Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong and Richard Joyce’s more recent The Myth of Morality. They both argue that i) moral judgments presuppose objective and categorical moral values and ii) this presupposition is false since there are no such things. Therefore‚ they conclude‚ moral judgments are systematically false. Although Mackie offers an argument from relativity and an argument from queerness in support of his claim‚ this paper will

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    On Mackie’s Argument from queerness The argument from queerness suggested by Mackie is one of his main arguments against moral realism. The following I would like to discuss is the details of this argument and the critique of it. In advanced‚ I would like to define the meaning of “moral realism”. There are two tendencies of moral realism. One is naturalism‚ the other non-naturalism. Naturalistic moral realism states that moral facts exist like natural facts‚ either in relation or identical to.

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    existence when humans began to think logically. Both sides of the argument of God’s existence have been argued by many philosophers over the years and yet both sides of the argument are still very prominent today. Theists have found many compelling arguments to support their cause however there is one substantial argument known as ‘The Problem of Evil’ which contradicts the beliefs of theists. In this paper I will explain what the problem of evil is and how it works against the beliefs of the theist. In

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    as well as these disciplines on the basis of the Evil Spirt Argument. The first thing that I am going to do is to explain what Descartes’s project of the Meditations and the role of the method of doubt in that project. Then I will explain the Evil Spirit Argument in depth about each of the premises. Once I explain the argument I will then go onto evaluate all of the premises. Finally‚ I will end with a conclusion on how my evaluation of the argument bears on Descartes’s project‚ and whether or not

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    The Problem of Evil The problem of evil has a long history in the argument against the existence of God. The question posed is often this: If God is all-powerful and all-loving‚ then how and why can He allow evil to exist in the world? This is one of the hardest arguments to combat against from a Christian standpoint‚ because‚ in reality‚ often times‚ we find ourselves wondering the same thing. There are quite a few responses to the problem of evil from a Christian standpoint‚ most of them are

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    cannot help us by preventing evil. The argument of evil basically states that God and evil cannot coincide. There are two types of evil; moral‚ which is carried out by humans through immoral actions that cause pain and suffering such as murder‚ rape and so forth. Natural evil is the second type which occurs through inevitable phenomenon’s such as natural disasters; hurricanes‚ tsunamis and diseases are a few (Sober‚ 120). The argument from evil is a deductively valid argument and states the following

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    example; “…the blues of the apex falling‚ then seething into a turbulence of red…” (Carr‚p.46) J. L. Carr who is the writer of A Month in the Country may have written his short novel as an open novel for the wide

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    The book I read this quarter is called Jenny Pox by J.L. Bryan. It’s a self published book I got for free on my kindle‚ and it’s 309 pages long. Jenny Pox is classified as horror in the kindle store‚ but the blurb didn’t seem to scary or graphic. It told me Jenny Pox was about a teenage girl named Jenny who couldn’t touch anyone without making them sick with a disease/infection nicknamed “Jenny Pox”. At the time‚ I was going on a sort of shopping spree for free books‚ so I bought it along with about

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