Existence precedes essence

St. Anselm of Canterbury came up with an argument which attempts to prove the existence of God by proving the apparent absurdity of the atheist opinion. Anselm contrasts the ideas of existing in the understanding and existing in reality to show that God must truly exist in reality. The earliest critic of the ontological argument is a monk from Marmoutier named Gaunilo who believed that we can use logic to prove things that we have no reason to believe to be true. Gaunilo believed that he could…

Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument? Did you think it was a sound argument? Why or why not? Craig Kalam’s Cosmological argument argues in favor of the existence of God. The premises for the argument are as follows, 1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause 2. The universe began to exist 3. Therefore, the universe has a cause. In essence, how could the universe (something) suddenly appear out of nothing? His argument claims that it is not possible, as God, an omnipotent being who, without…

What is truth?: What is truth? A lot of people think they know what truth is, but in reality truth may mean something completely different than what you think it means. According to the Webster Dictionary truth is, “The body of real things, events, and facts.” Now you may be thinking, “Well that’s what I thought it was.” But truth is a lot more complex than that. There is truth in everything. There is even truth, and Post truth in Agriculture. Truth is actually a really important concept.…

Answers and Equivalencies Does God exist if there is no one who believes in him? If we are to govern ourselves, what methods should we use to go about this? These questions are the focus of religious and political philosophical scholars. Humans have been wondering about these questions as long as there has been sedentary life. In the ancient times of hunter-gatherer societies, people were too focused on surviving that day to think about divinities that were beyond the crops and animals they…

One philosopher that freely gives off his opinion on god's existence would be St. Thomas Aquinas. St. Aquinas, in his Summa Theological, he explains five separate proofs for the existence of God. His proofs rely on the world, what we see or experience. St. Aquinas’ first proof explains how there was once an all powerful object that started all the motion. Anything that is currently in motion was first at rest and was moved by another motion which was moved by another motion. Because anything…

The book Wringer is a book that explains the life of an average ten year old kid who really does not fit in his community because he does not want to wring the necks of pigeons . Everyone wrings pigeons necks when they turn ten years old and most kids are excited for it. Wringer written by Jerry Spinelli is a great book for people like myself who love animals and never want to see anything bad happen to them. It is a very sweet book about a boy named Palmer LaRue, who takes in a pigeon as a pet…

mystical...“Is there a God?” Religions of all sorts are based on some formation of a God or Goddess. But, then there are the beliefs of no existence, nor intellectual concern of belief. Throughout history humanity has gained insight of experiences or evidential beliefs of a path that follows the path, in the righteous footsteps of a God. The questions of God’s existence, raise different views of one’s belief. Religious arguments arise from the questions of God’s form, whether your atheists,…

The belief of souls in animals, environment, and inanimate objects is called animism. Sir Edward Tylor, an English anthropologist in the 19th century, introduced this word and believed that animism was the root of all religions. His idea for it comes from the Latin word anima, meaning soul or breath, and anima can also be found in the words inanimate and animal. While there has been no official founder and leader of this religion, it is still being practiced around the world to this very day.…

What steps does Descartes take to prove his existence and that God exists? (one of the proofs). Discuss whether his reasoning is sound and convincing. In this essay, I will discuss how after the first and second meditation, Descartes knows that he exists and that he is a thinking thing. I will then proceed to analyze the third meditation in which Descartes focuses on a causal argument for existence of God who is perfect. By the end of the third meditation, Descartes appears to prove that he is…

In St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument, he believe that God exist in real world. He points out that nothing can be thought greater than God, and if God dose not exist, something exist must be greater than him which prove the existent of God. However, his argument is not sound. Things exist in our mind may not exist in real world. People understanding a thing cannot proves that people believe that thing. First, Anselm says that “if that than which a greater cannot be thought is in the…