Existence of God

and verbal & written ornamentation, one faces a situation that widely accepted the definition of a ‘Spiritual’ does not exist. Back in human history, the word ‘translatable’ to Spiritual was part of Biblical context as something Holly or animated by God. Much later, as human Intelligence and inquisitiveness about Life advanced, it has acquired first social and in modern age a psychological meaning Frequently and in general terms a ‘Spiritual’ is the designation for a personal orientation in…

Can evil exist without good? Evil cannot exist without good because they are the structure of humanity and existence. Good and evil coexist together, and if you simply get rid of one you also take away the other. If there was only good, and no evil, it would not necessarily be considered good. Society would just view it as normal because there would be nothing to compare our actions to. The world is all about opposites. For instance, yin and yang (dark and light), one cannot exist without the…

himself to be a non-believer, he advocated religious perspective known as deism. “Deism, derived from the Latin word "Deus" meaning "God", is a theological/philosophical position that combines the rejection of revelation and authority as a source of religious knowledge with the conclusion that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existence of a single creator…

itself. People would rather believe in a piece of Freudian psychology than a simple fact-that powdered eggs didn’t taste as good as real eggs. Nietzche’s quote-that “God is dead”-only has become more prominent now. People worship their brand, their clothing, their cheap plastic purchases. We have become worshippers of material, not of gods. It’s just interesting how easily people can be manipulated into believing that consuming one product somehow will make them happier, a freer and better…

between the existence an all knowing, all powerful, all loving God, and evil. This is known as the problem of evil, and it has perplexed theists and atheists for centuries. One 20th century philosopher, J.L Mackie, used a formulation of the problem of evil in an attempt to disprove the existence of God. Over the course of his career, he sought to prove that God could not exist alongside evil. While Mackie’s argument is valid, it is not sound. Mackie’s formulation fails to disprove the…

Miss Moore, the children learn that there are families that live in a whole new manner than that they are familiar with. With the enlightenment of the outside world, both the prisoners and Sylvia “are said to have ascended from the world below to the gods” (Plato). The prisoners and Sylvia perceive a new reality that is present outside of their current…

The ‘Authentic existence’ however, is achieved when the individual realizes who they are, and distinguishes itself as a unique entity. The ‘authentic Self’ is then ‘concerned’ with their unique destiny, as oppose to the ‘inauthentic Self’ or ‘Theyself’ which is on par with the status quo and has no individuality (Hornsby page 3, paragraph 3). Finally, Heidegger gives the term ‘Verfall’ as “a fallen away”, “the lack of perception of an existence carried out in terms of ‘oneness’…

In the 1998 film, The Truman Show, featuring Jim Carrey as the main protagonist, it poses philosophical questions pertaining to Plato’s allegory of the cave found in The Republic. The main character of a fictional television show was Truman Burbank who lived in an alternate reality that was actually a television set that he perceived to be real. From his birth, to early childhood, teenage years, and adult life, Truman has been filmed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through a television…

For instance, if humans were controlled by the matrix, there would be a moment in their lives where they would doubt their truth existence. When they question their reality versus their dreams, they might encounter the question, “what if my reality is indeed the reality of somebody else, like a higher power or computer?” In this thought, they are challenging the matrix. The moment…

Emptiness can be properly seen through the understanding of Nāgārjuna’s the Perfection of Wisdom, for it proclaims that all things are truly empty. Nāgārjuna wrote the Mūlamadhyama-kakārikā, which gives the foundation to the Indian Buddhist sector of Madhyamaka in philosophical terms. His analysis in philosophy conveys his main views that all things are empty (śūnya) or devoid intrinsic nature (svabhāva). Nāgārjuna’s point in his writings is to prove that there is more to the primary Buddhist…