Argument Essays and Term Papers
The Priority Argument and Aristotle's Political HylomorphismAbstract
I wish to demonstrate in this article that Aristotle's argument for the priority of the city in Politics I 2 is supported by his conception of the ontological priority of form (and actuality) over matter (and potentiality). This interpretation should enable us to see that, just as his ...
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Argument From EvilBrandon Nesenoff
Wednesday 10:35AM
TA: Arturo
PHI 107 First Paper
Argument from Evil (Mackie)
P | 1. If a thing/being is omnipotent then there are no limits on what it can do.
P | 2. Good is opposed to evil in such a way that a good thing eliminates evil as much as it can.
1,2| 3. A good ...
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How To Win An ArgumentTo win an argument one must keep in mind the following factors: Is the argument
worth fighting? Do you have the proper background to win the argument? Who is
your opponent? And finally, do I have the proper argumentative behavior.
Before getting involved in an argument, you must decide whether or ...
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Anselm's Ontological Argument And The PhilosophersSaint Anselm of Aosta, Bec, and Canterbury, perhaps during a moment of
enlightenment or starvation-induced hallucination, succeeded in formulating an
argument for God's existence which has been debated for almost a thousand years.
It shows no sign of going away soon. It is an argument based ...
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The Motionless Arrow: Aristotle's Thoughts On Zeno's Arror ArgumentAristotle's thoughts on Zeno's Arrow Argument as represented in Chapter
9 of Aristotle's Physics: A Guided Study can be understood in such a way that it
might not be "next door to madness". In this chapter, Aristotle interprets
Zeno's argument of the Flying Arrow as "missing the mark". There ...
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Descartes' Skeptical Argument And Reponses By Bouwsma And MalcolmIn this essay, I will examine Rene Descartes' skeptical argument and
responses by O.K. Bouwsma and Norman Malcolm. I intend to prove that while both
Bouwsma and Malcolm make points that refute specific parts of Descartes'
argument in their criticisms, neither is sufficient in itself to refute ...
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Underdetermination in the teleological argumentThe name “the teleological argument” is derived from the Greek word “telos”, meaning “end” or “purpose”. The idea is that it takes a "purposer" to have purpose, and so where we see things obviously intended for a purpose, something had to have caused it for a reason. In other words, design implies ...
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A Definitive Argument On EuthanasiaEuthanasia is a very controversial topic, one that provokes both anger and sympathy. There are considered to be two kinds of euthanasia: passive and active. Passive euthanasia is to withhold treatment and allow a patient to die of his or her given disease. Active euthanasia is to take direct ...
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The Ontoligical ArgumentMany people have tried to prove through many ways that God exists. Anselm used the ontological argument, proposing that if God could be thought of and perceived, then God has to exist. At the center of the ontological argument is the idea or concept of existence. The Ontological argument is a ...
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Anselm's Ontological ArgumentAnselm of Canterbury was the first philosopher to create an argument for God’s existence based solely on logic and reason. He states that, because we can all conceive of that than which nothing greater can be thought, it must exist in our understanding, and if it exists in our understanding, it ...
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Argument-based Homicide In America
Feeling alienated by fellow classmates, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO who referred to themselves as the Trench Coat Mafia went on a rampant killing spree which took the lives of themselves, twelve other students and one teacher (Obmascik 1). This incident caused an ...
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Argument-based Homicide In AmericaFeeling alienated by fellow classmates, two students at Columbine High School in Littleton, CO who referred to themselves as the Trench Coat Mafia went on a rampant killing spree which took the lives of themselves, twelve other students and one teacher (Obmascik 1). This incident caused an ...
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The Ontological ArgumentThe Ontological Argument
The Ontological argument revolves around the conclusion of if God truly exists, and if there really is a higher power as well as where it comes from. This argument can get very sensitive when it is usually viewed from two points. One side looks at this in a very ...
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Argument Analysis Essay - A Letter from Birmingham Jail.Argument Analysis Essay - A Letter from Birmingham Jail.
Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1960s, experienced high tension and injustice of racialism. Blacks were only permitted to attend in designated areas in buses, stores, and restaurants. They were only allowed to be in their own churches, ...
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Anselms Ontological ArgumentAs a theologian and philosopher, Saint Anselm strove to prove the existence of God in reality. The bulk of his argument is found in Chapter II of Proslogium.
Anselm begins by defining God as “a being than which nothing greater can be conceived”. He continues by stating that ...
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Rogerian Argument in A is for AbsentRogerian Argument in "A is for Absent"
Chris Piper, a broadcast journalism major at the University of Texas at Arlington wrote an interesting essay for the student newspaper. In his essay, "A is for Absent", Piper argues that attendance should not be mandatory for students. He believes that ...
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Boethius Argument Against UnivBoethius' Argument Against Universals
In the essay “From His Second Commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge” Boethius discusses
the existence of universals.. By proposing two main arguments, he first shows why a view
such as that held by Plato (one claiming that universals exist ...
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Jonathan's Swift's Real ArgumentGod only knows from whence came Freud's theory of penis envy, but one of
his more tame theories, that of "reverse psychology", may have its roots in the
satire of the late Jonathan Swift. I do not mean to assert that Swift employed
or was at all familiar with that style of persuasion, but his ...
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