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Does God Exist Essays and Term Papers
A Critique Of C. S. Lewis"A Relativist said, 'The world does not exist, England does not exist, Oxford does not exist and I am confident that I do not Exist!' When Lewis was asked to reply, he stood up and said, 'How am I to talk to a man who's not there?'" - C. S. Lewis: A Biography
Clive Staples Lewis was born, in 1898, ...
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Justifying The Ways Of God To Man: Paradise Lost, Book IIIOne of the most important things an individual can do in his or her life is come to an understanding of God. It takes some people all of their lives to figure out whether they even believe in a God, never mind which one. Imagine how difficult it would be for someone to portray God as a ...
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Descartes And The Existence OfUpon cursory examination, one might assume that Rene Descartes is a “non-believer” in the existence of a heavenly being, a God that presides over humans and gives us faith. However, this is simply not the case – Descartes is simply trying to destroy all of the uncertainties that ...
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Philosophy - Absolute UnderstaAn elephant was brought to a group of blind men who had never
encountered such an animal before. One felt a leg and reported that an
elephant is a great living pillar. Another felt the trunk and reported that an
elephant is a great snake. Another felt a tusk and reported that an elephant
is like ...
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The Truth Is Not AbsoluteAn elephant was brought to a group of blind men who had never
encountered such an animal before. One felt a leg and reported that an elephant is a great living pillar. Another felt the trunk and reported that an elephant is a great snake. Another felt a tusk and reported that an elephant is like ...
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Essay On The Intrinsic Flaws Inherent In ChristianityChristianity is a religion in which events are claimed to have occured
but which can never be proved. Those who practice it live by different
morals than are preached by the most holy texts. It is an institution in
which the most holy scripture is contradictory, and wherein the supreme
being, ...
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Christianityis a religion in which events are claimed to have occured but
which can never be proved. Those who practice it live by different morals
than are preached by the most holy texts. It is an institution in which the
most holy scripture is contradictory, and wherein the supreme being, by the
very ...
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Saint Augustine: ConfessionsWhen I think of the many mysteries in our vast universe, one stands out as the most puzzling. It affects our lives, from birth, until we are placed in our graves a generation later. Within it exists history. Without it, we would be aimless and confused. We would not know when we are supposed to be ...
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Aristotle's Refutation Of Plato's Theory Of IdeasAristotle refutes Plato's Theory of Ideas on three basic grounds: that the existence of Ideas contradicts itself by denying the possibility of negations; that his illustrations of Ideas are merely empty metaphors; and that they theory uses impermanent abstractions to create examples of ...
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Transcendentalism And A Belief In A "Higher Power"We do not have good reasons to believe in something transcendental. Most
of the arguments in favor of God, or a so-called "higher power" are based on
faith and emotion, and not a clear logical argument. In fact, these arguments
are often in favor of throwing logic out the window. In many ways, ...
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Descartes First MeditationDescartes’ first meditation, his main objective is to present three skeptical arguments to bring doubt upon what he considers his basic beliefs. Descartes believes this to be an intricate part of his complete epistemological argument. Descartes skeptical arguments are not intended to be a ...
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First MeditationDescartes’ , his main objective is to present three skeptical arguments to bring doubt upon what he considers his basic beliefs. Descartes believes this to be an intricate part of his complete epistemological argument. Descartes skeptical arguments are not intended to be a denial of his basic ...
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Divine Presence In Bonaventure's The Journey of the Mind to GodBonaventure proposes that only through divine presence is the human mind capable of understanding the world. His argument, contained within Chapter Three of The Journey of the Mind to God, rests on two fundamental yet fallible presumptions: one, that God exists, and two, that the human mind is ...
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Crime And Punishment 4In Dostoevsky's novels pain and some heavy burden of the inevitability of
human suffering and helplessness form Russia. And he depicts it not with
white gloves on, nor through the blisters of the peasant, but through people
who are close to him and his realities: city people who either have ...
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The Search For God In Eight Chapters
In Eight Chapters by Maimonides, there seems to be a lot of confusion when dealing with the existence of God and man's perception of him. Maimonides was trying to provide a strong basis for the belief that God was above man, but instead he only succeeds in stating obvious facts that fail ...
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Crime And Punishment .In Dostoevsky's novels pain and some heavy burden of the inevitability of
human suffering and helplessness form Russia. And he depicts it not with
white gloves on, nor through the blisters of the peasant, but through people
who are close to him and his realities: city people who either have ...
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Crime And PunishmentIn Dostoevsky's novels pain and some heavy burden of the inevitability of
human suffering and helplessness form Russia. And he depicts it not with
white gloves on, nor through the blisters of the peasant, but through people
who are close to him and his realities: city people who either have ...
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SatanismThe attention given recently by the mass media to some episodes more or less directly tied to the world of is a symptom and effect of a morbid curiosity exhibited today by many with regard to the occult in general and also to the satanic in particular. All the more urgent then is the necessity of ...
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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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