Existence of God

PHIL-1600, Exam 2, Instructor: Chapman 2 1. Lay out and explain the distinction between an a priori argument for the existence of God and an a posteriori argument for the existence of God and identify which type of argument the Ontological Argument is and which type of argument the Cosmological Argument is. • A Posterior Argument: Relies substantively on empirical promises, sensory experience, and observations. o The cosmological argument is an a posterior argument • A Priori Argument: Doesn’t…

Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume have similar but also contrasting views on the nature and existence of external objects. Descartes said that God is not a deceiver. His view about external objects, is that God created and gave him reasoning that lets him know that his ideas come from external things. Meaning that external objects have to exist because if they did not, that would mean that God was a deceiver, which is not true. Descartes views external objects as also as external…

God’s existence has been a topic of discussion for believers and non-believers alike. When discussing the existence of God one must consider the acceptance of Him by faith. If one does not have belief and trust no argument given for His existence will be accepted. The proof of God’s existence even goes beyond our planet and into the universe. The universe, the place where scientists believe time began. Many times we tend to overlook the simple things that are in front of us as signs of God’s…

on Contingency, he believed that since the universe could have once not existed, there had to be a causable explanation for its existence. if everything in the world proceeds to be contingent than how could anything exist in the first place? Portraying that there had to be a necessity or nessasary being that was the cause of all these contingent things. Could it be god? I very much agree with aquinas, the world we live in is in a very cause and effect manner. for instance without crops, water…

seem to be able to coexist. This would suggest that a god would not be able to come from nothing, which means that god would not be able to have the highest degree of reality, because god’s existence would have to have a cause it relied on. Something with the highest degree of reality would not have to rely on anything to be able to exist. This would mean that either the proof of the existence of god failed, or there is a possibility that god is not at the highest degree of reality, as Descartes…

shows that Descartes ' epistemological project ultimately fails. In this paper, I will explain Descartes ' epistemic plan in the Meditations, and his discovery of indubitable beliefs to accomplish this plan. I will also present his argument for God 's existence, and explain how he uses the argument to prove that the material universe exists.…

and Summa Contra Gentiles: Book One: God. They offer arguments that contrast one another concerning the divine intellect, and in particular, God’s ability to intellect singulars. Despite the convincing nature of Avicenna’s proofs, Aquinas effectively proves God’s knowledge of singulars by a sound argument that supports God’s knowledge of singulars, a proof that necessitates this reality, and in turn, provides an argument that undercuts the necessity that God cannot intellect singulars. For this…

Rene Descartes and God’s Existence Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and a scientist in the seventeenth century. As a man of science, Descartes wanted to make discoveries in science as factual as mathematics. With Descartes’s faith, he did not eliminate God from philosophy. Descartes, “The Father of Modern Philosophy”, was a Catholic who wrote the Meditations on First Philosophy. “The Meditations is characterized by Descartes’s use of methodic doubt, a systematic procedure…

(Huemer 47-57) René Descartes holds the opposite opinion, which he discusses in ‘Meditations One and Two.’ While there is validity to both sides of the argument, Huemer’s essay proves to be more reliable after dissecting Descartes’ concepts of existence. Huemer proposes that no one can know anything about the external world, or anything that exists outside of the mind. It is impossible to be certain of how many fingers one has, or if surrounding objects are real or solely a mental…

with one primary goal. He claims to succeed in developing an argument of the existence of God without the requirement of actual proof. Anselm 's reasoning and argument only gives a mere opinion on the topic of the existence of God. He formulates a two part hypothesis consisting of: God exists and God has always existed. Anselm’s Ontological argument expresses accusations that are simply in his favor or his outlook on God. A premise of the argument is that any person who does not exist in one…