Existence

1. That God could prevent evil actions and preserve human freedom of will Oftentimes, doubters will assert that God could have kept an insidiousness and safeguard flexibility of will; on the other hand, it is essential that if the recent is to exist then the previous can't. Flexibility of will involves the capacity to act as per one's sentiments and decisions with no outside obstruction. Any confinement set on these two fundamentally prompts lost individual opportunity as an outside power…

chance of disputing her sister Melissa in the fact that souls do exist by denoting to Plato’s defense of souls existing to aid in her defending her stance on the dispute. In the dialogues, Plato uses the defense to justify Socrates’ beliefs in the existence of the soul. By referring back to the readings that justify the soul, Melinda would seem to be able to convince her sister to agree with her. Melinda could argue that all things have an opposite, including the soul. (Grube, 2002) Melissa…

In this part of the chapter, the author examines the principle of law and constancy. The author begins by noting how the creationist view, even espoused in some ways by such pivotal thinkers as Issac Newton to think of there being some definite order, or framework of rules we know as laws of nature, established by what could (in their minds) only be a god (albeit in a time where science was in its infancy and so other ways of contemplating order in the universe hadn’t been developed besides the…

A table does not exist. Regardless of apparent evidence including touching, and seeing the table, it does not exist. The absurdity of the above statement exemplifies how illogical society’s doubts in the existence of different co-cultures is. Specifically, the question of whether identifying as LGBTQ is acceptable or if those students deserve the backlash they receive. Currently, 3.5% of the United States identify under the LGBTQ umbrella, correlating to approximately 11 billion people, but it…

The problem of evil describes the argument that atheists and theists had about existence of God and evil. Atheists believes that God does not exist, but theists believes God does exist. There are two arguments of problem of evil: deductive argument (contradictory beliefs) and evidential argument. Contradictory beliefs are a set of beliefs is contradictory if and only if it is not possible for all of them to be true together. The six premises of contradictory beliefs are stated: 1. If God…

Rodriguez-Pereyra, Gonzalo. 2008. “Descartes’s Substance Dualism and His Independence Conception of Substance.” Journal of the History of Philosophy, Vol. 46, no. 1 (2008) 69-90. In the presented article, Rodriguez-Pereyra argues that the independence conception of substance is crucial for the success of the separability argument. Rodriguez-Pereyra continued by breaking down the thesis into two aims: 1) Descartes’s independence conception is that a is a created or dependent substance if and…

Descartes' intent for his meditations is to establish whether or not he can possess any certain knowledge. To do this, he engages in the method of Cartesian doubt, doubting everything he once believed at their foundations. To do this, Descartes reasons that almost everything he has come to believe has been a result of sensory perceptions but senses often are deceptive. If something deceives you at all, Descartes argues that the source cannot be held as a reliable foundation of knowledge.…

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…

Plato, Descartes, and The Matrix Life and human existence give rise to a practically endless list of philosophical questions. Among these are found questions about the nature of our existence and the world around us: “What can we know? What is reality? Can we know anything for sure?” Such questions are incredibly complex and not easily answered. Some interesting insight can be found into these thoughts by looking at the work of Plato and Descartes along with the movie The Matrix. In their…

argues that reason “is incapable of giving faith, or hope, or love; and, consequently, of producing either real virtue, or substantial happiness”. These are gifts from God that can only be given with or without evidence of His existence. Even without reason for the existence of God, the sacred and the transcendent is still maintained and does not need to be reasoned in order to produce hope, faith and love for…