Existence

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’…

Aquinas formed The Third Argument 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.…

reintroduced the idea as part of his five proofs for the existence of God. Aquinas’s first way is derived from motion. Following the same premise as Aristotle, Aquinas argues that a first mover, existing in a state of perfect actuality, must exist to move things from potential to actual states. Absence of this first mover would result in an infinite regress; therefore, the observable presence of motion in the material necessitates the existence of a first mover. The second way is founded upon…

ontological argument claims that existence must be among the defining predicates of God… [s]o existence is a necessary characteristic of a supremely perfect being” (Hick 18). The main premise of Descartes’s argument is that God’s existence can be deducted from the nature of God. Descartes used the analogy of a triangle to propose that, if the idea of a triangle can be deduced from the nature of shapes, then the idea of God can be deduced from the nature of existence. This main premise of…

being had to make it. After this large break down of the three main arguments on the existence of God, the next mission was the rebuttals to oppose the existence of God, which brings in the Atheism argument. This argument breaks down the problem of evil from the atheism point of view. The problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and benevolent God with the existence of a world full of evil and suffering (Holt). Omniscient is described as the…

is only working with our current world in which we occupy. In Meinong’s theory, existence is merely a property that an object can have like colour or shape. So if one were to reference a unicorn, this can be a valid even though they do not exist in our spatiotemporal region as existence is merely another property that a unicorn can have like having a horn or having four legs. Whereas in Lewis’s theory existence is a prerequisite necessity of being an object and when specifically referencing…

live by believing that god exists and if a man does not believe the existence of god, he as a man is a weak person who will gain hell and punishment, instead of heaven or bliss. I disagree with Pascal’s claim because not all men are respected and honored even if some might believe god’s existence.…

The views of these philosophers on the existence and nature of external objects are distinct based on their views. You have Leibniz and Spinoza believe in Monadology meaning they believe everything in the world is made up of monads. While Locke, Descartes, Hume, and Berkley are Imperialist with their views. Descartes believes that the existence and nature of an external object is that an existing thing needs nothing but its self in order to exist. We do not perceive the substances but just…

In Meditations on First Philosophy Rene Descartes attempts to reconcile a Christian metaphysics with a new epistemology contrary to the scholastic, Aristotelian worldview. He seeks new foundations that knowledge can be built upon and tries to accomplish this by identifying basic, indubitable axioms to derive more complex truths by. As Descartes had a background in mathematics and geometry, these tenets are proposed alike mathematical truths in that they are self-evidential. He calls these axioms…

Of course, this kind explain real exist in this book. But I can’t accept it can explain why the existence of slavery? Those explain just is some negative act people’s excuse. They lie to say they have try their best to reject the slavery system, but to the truth, they don’t take some actions. Like Tom’s first master, he promises Tom to release. But he finally still sells Tom, and use a shameless reason to explain to his family. Tom’s second master, is a good master. Tom gets a good job at there…