Existence precedes essence

Charles Peirce’s “The Doctrine of Necessity Examined” ‘Against absolute chance is inconceivable’ is the third argument examined by Charles S. Peirce in “The Doctrine of Necessity Examined”. Necessitarianism or Determinism is a principle that refuses all simple possibility, and affirms that there is exactly a single way in which the world can be. Determinism refers to the philosophical theory which states that all man’s capability of conscious choice, decision, and intention is invariably…

4.1.2 Lucky Numbers Lucky numbers are simple numbers, believed to affect someone's luck. The believe in lucky or unlucky numbers is usually based on the basic believe in the first ten basic numbers. (one to ten) Often seen as a symbol of god, the first number often symbolizes the primal being or creation. It is often associated to humankind (reflecting our upright stance.) In modern western culture to be "number one" is often to be the best. On the one hand, the saying “Good luck comes often…

challenge of the scepticism. However, his position could rather be seen as an anti-sceptical one, because, instead of believing that everything was merely false and that nothing existed, he just held nothing to be true and inspected the potential existence of something. The philosopher provided an evidence of this willed approach when he stated: “I will follow this strategy until I discover something that is certain or, at least, until I discover that it is certain only that nothing is certain”…

Introduction The existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and omnibenevolent God is coherent despite the subsistence of horrendous evil in the world. Two major points are argued for in this paper lead to this conclusion. Firstly, evil is deemed not to be a “thing”; for everything in the world is created by the omnibenevolent God and as a good being; God is not one to create evil things (Jackson, 2014). Critics argue that if God exists and if God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good; He would…

Comparison in which J.R.R Tolkien and Jules Verne have explored different perspectives on the idea of faith and doubt in their respective texts The Hobbit and Journey to the Centre of the Earth. Both texts convey the idea of faith and doubt. The idea that doubt will always affect your journey, but faith may have enough strength to overcome the doubt in anything. Verne looks at both Protagonist one symbolising faithful and the other symbolising doubt. This is metaphorically showing how faith…

In “Reasonable Religious Disagreements,” Richard Feldman posits that two reasonable peers cannot come to a reasonable disagreement. The premise of a “reasonable disagreement” has various conditions, in short being that the peers must be epistemic, and they must have shared all of their evidence pertaining to the argument. By this criteria, it is not plausible for two epistemic peers with access to the same body of evidence to ever reach reasonably different conclusions. However, a problem arises…

The Absurd- Kierkegaard’s concept of the Absurd is that faith in Christianity will seem from the outside to be an absurd commitment but, that, by one making the “leap of faith”, it becomes that most rational choice available to the human person. The Absurd is the aspect of faith that cannot be resolved by speculative philosophy and can only be resolved by the way of an individual choice. There is no way to understand the complexity or the vague nature of a religious faith until one is “in the…

What is real? Is there one reality or are there many? What influences the reality? These are the recurring questions that were raised while reading Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s In a Grove. It was confusing to read the seven characters' accounts of the “reality” of the murder case. Specifically, given that each character’s description of the murder differed, from insignificant details to major plot lines, I was conflicted on the truth of the matter. In this way, the subject of metaphysics surfaces as I…

uses this methodology while being primarily concerned with proving the existence of God. This certainly is important for Descartes because if God exists, then we are able to trust our senses because God wouldn’t deceive us by distorting our perceptions. Additionally if things are as Descartes perceives them, then he must exist because he is the one perceiving the world. Descartes presents several arguments for God’s existence, including one which incorporates the great chain of being and both…

less real than God. The idea of God could not have come from the evil genius because then the cause would be smaller than the effect. Descartes proved God 's existence. This is why the third meditation takes on such a huge role. The third meditation would be the most important even if it only proved God 's existence because God 's existence is a pretty big deal. This meditation holds a lot of weight because if Descartes had not delivered the meditation the way he did we might not have realized…