Existence precedes essence

Margaret Atherton does however, explore Berkeley’s argument as one in which is stated reasonably and coherently color does exist as a part of objects, or in other words that “snow is actually white”, and that this theory is better than previous philosophical theory. I will give a summary of her arguments before asserting my opinion that Berkeley’s argument far more beneficial to objectivists than to the whole of color theory In the world of color existing, Atherton describes two dichotomous…

what we do and do not believe. He does not manipulate our minds to believing what he wants us to believe. Descartes proves through his article that there is a God due to the fact that we cannot exist without a force that is maintaining our very own existence. If we existed without a God, that would mean that we would have created ourselves. Which leaves us with no possible way to have doubts because how can we doubt ourselves if we are our own creator who gave ourselves the knowledge of what it…

The existence of God has always been a topic of discussion. Many believe that God exists and some do not. Most reasons why there is an argument of God's existence is because of the problem of evil. The people that believe in the existence of God are called theist and those who do not are called atheist. Both have a thought of the existence of God, but atheist feels as if there is no proof. Since the free will defense is a very controversial topic, I believe that the free will defense is…

The problem of evil can be defined as the problem of reconciling the presence of evil with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and a perfectly good God (Holt, 2008). This theory surrounds the God of classical theism in which Epicurus formulated. The theory states that God is known as an all-knowing, all powerful and all loving being and therefore, how can suffering be existent in a world where God is all- powerful. Augustine made a comment saying “Either God cannot abolish evil, or he…

temporal parts – follows from several other premises, chief among which is the premise that existence is never vague. Kathrin Koslicki (preceding article) claims that the argument fails since its crucial premise is unsupported, and is dialectically inappropriate to assume in the context of arguing for four-dimensionalism. Since the relationship between four-dimensionalism and the non-vagueness of existence is not perfectly transparent, I think the argument would retain some interest even if the…

Augustine rejects Skepticism Augustine was a theologian and philosopher; he is known to be one of the most influential fathers in Western Christianity for his various writings. He saw humans as a unity of two elements: soul and body. He was not worried about giving exact explanations about what he thought. Augustine’s theory of knowledge begins with the thought that there is such thing as a thing called truth and this truth is accessible to human reason. He used several arguments against…

Peter Van Inwagen’s whole concept of this article was to prove through various points and arguments the conflicts of evil. He brings arguments, and ideas that disagrees with the notion of even believing that evil exists. What he begins with is the problem with believing evil exists is; say evil exists through the many happenings you have witnessed or even only heard about, so how can it not be real right? Inwagen inserts the idea that God, almighty and creator of all, does not exist if large…

Pythagorus of Samos is sometimes called the first pure mathematician. He is one of the most important figures in the development of mathematics, yet there is not a lot known about his accomplishments. This is due to his creation of a society based on religion, science, and secrecy. There are no works of his writing in which we can find out more about this illustratious figure. Most of what we know about Pythagorus’s early years were written by authors who thought of him as a God, so some…

Out of the three main different schools of thought surrounding epistemology and how humans gain knowledge, Kant’s theory of transcendental idealism is the most reasonable. While both Hume and Descartes present good points, they take their ideas too much to the extreme. Hume’s extreme empiricism drives him into skepticism so harsh that it led to the conclusion that events do not really have a cause, since cause cannot be directly observed. This claim is problematic at numerous levels, mainly…

Through [diction, figurative language, imagery, syntax] the poem “The Tyger’’ by William Blake conveys a “Baffled’’ tone, revealing how beauty is hardly noticed. One way the tone is revealed is by Diction. You may notice there are a lot of words and phrases that refer to fire like “ burning bright, fire, burning’’ and these words are used by the author to describe how dangerous and fierce, this tiger is. I mean, how is it God made this creature when God is thought to be beautiful and is…