Choice Is Your Choice How would you feel if you went to the store and you were told what to buy? What if you were told what to do? What if you had no choice in where to go or what to wear? How would you feel if these choices were limited to just two or three choices to choose from? In this day and age‚ the variety of choice has grown to almost limitless. This abundance of choice gives people the opportunity to be different. Individuality would mean nothing if we all wore the same clothes‚ ate the
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Boethius’ main concern was in showing that god rewards and punishes justly. In order for Boethius to successfully address this concern and answer it convincingly‚ he must explain the problem of evil and suffering in our world‚ as well as explain how God can exist with his specific attributes and still allow for us to have free will. Such issues raise three important questions relating to; time and where God is within it‚ the two kinds of necessity and God’s divine foreknowledge. On analysis of these
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The theories of both Michael Porter and Gary Hamel have changed that way organisations strive for competitive advantage. Their ideas on competitive strategy and management innovation are now seen as essential transformational tools for businesses looking to deliver profitable growth for its stakeholders. Michael E. Porter is a leading authority on competitive strategy‚ the competitiveness and economic development of nations‚ states‚ and regions‚ and the application of competitive principles to
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1. The three primary divine attributes: Omnipotence: God has maximal powerful‚ is all powerful‚ capable of doing anything Omniscience: God is all seeing and all knowing Omnibenevolence: God does only good‚ God is morally perfect and is considered the source of morality Two secondary divine attributes: Omniprescence: God is present everywhere at the same time Incorporeal: God is not composed of matter‚ has no material existence
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Final Paper – The Problem of Evil The problem of evil is a widespread argument that attempts to disprove the existence of an omnipotent‚ omnibenevolent God. However‚ there are many refutations to the problem that demonstrate‚ while the problem of evil may seem to be wholly logical‚ it does not achieve the goal of absolutely disproving the existence of the aforementioned God. It is important to first examine the argument in support of the problem of evil‚ in order to understand why it may cause some
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But now we have seen that—alter the universe as you wish—it does not affect the problem. It therefore does not arise in the first place”. I believe that he is right. I think that there is a misunderstanding of what omnipotence means. I think it means that God cannot be more powerful than he currently is because his power is already perfect. I believe that the answer to the problem of evil is that God gave us free will‚ because freedom is inherently good. Free will means
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God existed‚ though‚ then we would expect him to prevent all suffering. Suffering‚ though‚ is a familiar part of the world around us; it has not been prevented. There is‚ therefore‚ the argument concludes‚ no such God. The question of omnipotence is posed as a paradox‚ which asks‚ “can God create a stone so heavy that he cannot lift it?” If he can create such a stone‚ then there is something that God cannot do‚ lift the stone‚ therefore God is not omnipotent and cannot exist. If he cannot create
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Mackie in his paper Evil and Omnipotence‚ constructs an argument against the idea of the possibility of a God existing that has the characteristics laid out by the main religions: Christianity‚ Islam‚ and Judaism. These characteristics include that God is omnipotent‚ or He is capable of stopping evil‚ and omni benevolent‚ or He wants to eliminate evil and He is entirely good. Mackie systematically goes through his logical thought process as well as his response to any type of criticism or alternative
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such as striving‚ charity‚ and heroism. The fourth and final fallacious solution is that evil is due to human free will. Some objections with this are that freedom of the will is false and freedom must entail evil. He then talks about the paradox of omnipotence which is the question: Is God so powerful that he could do something that he ultimately could not control? The most traditional variant of this is could God create a stone that is even too heavy for him to lift
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The Ontological Argument: An explanation and critical assessment Phil 361 Lec 01 Professor: Reid Buchanan Ryley Braun‚ 10013764 April 16‚ 2010 The ontological argument is an attempt to refute skepticism of God and prove His existence through reason alone. The philosopher‚ Saint Anselm‚ presented his work on the ontological argument‚ or argument from reason‚ in his text the Proslogium. The argument‚ on the surface‚ is very logically convincing and attempts to allure even the skeptic of
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