Mind‚ Thought and Reality Critically 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
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Does ‘Pascal’s Wager’ provide a convincing argument for belief in God? Published in 1670 and named after French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal; the philosophical theory of Pascal’s Wager reasons that to believe in God is a decision made in a time of uncertainty. The Wager also explains that whether or not God exists‚ we can estimate the outcome; an infinite reward or an infinite punishment. This suggests that the rational choice to live as if God exists is the better of the possible
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Nice Student PHL 267 09/19/12 The reason for God- Timothy Keller “How could God Allow suffering” If God is good‚ why is there so much suffering and evil doing in the world today? Look at 9/11‚ why couldn’t God stop the terrorist’s from doing these awful things to our beautiful nation? At one point in our lives we all have experienced some sort of suffering‚ weather it may be the passing of a family member‚ getting robbed‚ not living in livable conditions‚ or just plain dislikes
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Descartes’ Discourse on the Method – Part IV Gustavo Barraza Strayer University Humanities - World Cultures II Dr. Elaine Cassel Winter 2013 Descartes’ Discourse on the Method – Part IV Descartes describes the results of his meditations when he reached the true knowledge and findings of the truth of his though. At the beginning of his investigation‚ Descartes undertakes to consider as false everything that he can possibly doubt. Descartes suggest that our sense experience‚ imagination
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Robert Jenkins THEO201_B10_201240 Short Essay #4 Angelology and Satanology The world has a belief that God and Satan are equal in power‚ one being good and one being evil‚ this is called Ethical Dualism. Ethical Dualism teaches that there are two forces in the world that are constantly fighting each other‚ being equal to each other‚ and that they will eternally be fighting. The problem with this worldly view‚ that God and Satan are equal‚ is that God created Satan. God being the creator‚ and
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truth‚ accepting the sum of present consciousness which ultimately allows an evolutionary transition‚ transcending the Cartesian Dilemma‚ aka‚ Descartes’ Mind/Body dualism. Although we are each a single individual‚ our minds and our bodies seem to exist in two separate worlds which operate on separate rules. The dilemma is unifying the two‚ made possible by transcending the duality entirely. This allows the emergence of de-limited spirit which then provides the world with a third path‚ the Path of
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Evil‚ how did it happen and why is it still here on this earth? There is this belief that the Christian God is good and all-powerful. He has the power to create worlds and beings‚ yet there is still evil in the world. Both Pierre Bayle and Voltaire address these questions in their works “Paulicians” and Candide (respectively). They both believe the Manichean philosophy as a more rational thought process than the contemporaneous Christian view. This belief is that there is not one‚ but two gods in
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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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The Irenaean theodicy argues that part of human growth is suffering and an evil nature‚ which guides us to God. However‚ the Death of God model argues the exact opposite. The Death of God model argues that evil cannot be an instrument of God and therefore‚ God has to be dead. Strengths of the Death of God model include the view that evil is not an instrument of God and the rejection of the traditional God that intervenes on Earth. The view that evil is not an instrument of God allows people to
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“Morality or Immorality” In “God and Morality” by Steven M. Cahn‚ Cahn argues that religions and the belief of any higher power cannot be used as the basis of determining if something is right or wrong or what is immoral and what is moral. He supports this argument by using the example‚ if God created all things with his infinite wisdom which includes germs‚ viruses‚ and disease-carrying rats should these things ought not be eliminated? In other word‚ just because someone tells you something is
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