Existence

PHASE ONE QUESTIONS/PHASE TWO QUESTIONS Has a book ever changed your life? If so, which one and why? I’m always reading but I’m one of those people that if I don’t read it again I’ll forget I read it in the first place. Sometimes I find myself reading books and just thinking, “Wait didn’t I read this already?” Two books that I always remember are Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby. Pride and Prejudiced changed my life because it changed some of my perspectives on writing. I used to…

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…

79. Lesser of Two Evils Principle & Gethsemane Law Under the ‘dark radiation, ’ the Spiritual Science considers all effects of the Divine Creative Principle with a basis in Egoistical Existence which consistently stimulates the outpouring of such ‘ugly’ tendencies of Consciousness into Physical realms. An unequivocal connection exists between “…hate, envy, jealousy, ruthlessness, lust for power, pride, self-satisfaction, and boastfulness, and the universal consequences in the form of murder,…

SensesA. Senses can deceive us. B. Other senses cannot doubt our movements. III. Evil GeniusA. He is clever and deceitful and powerful. B. He directed his efforts to mislead us. C. Put all the knowledge about things as a deceptive gamesMeditation 2 I. Existence of the Self(Cogito Ergo Sum)A. Nothing is certain that has existed in our mindsB. If there is a deceiver(Evil Genius), if he can deceive me, It means that I exist. C. If I am certain that I am really existing, I have only this knowledge…

thinking about them or seeing them with their own eyes. Realism is a actually a school of philosophy three of my former professors spoke about quite a lot. Realism answers a question I had as a five year old. That question was, “was the world in existence before I was born?” The world exists with or without my presence or acknowledgment. II. My philosophy of life came to be as I grew up, although it is…

Aquinas mentions 5 proofs for the existence of God. Pick 2 of these and explain them FULLY. Do you find these convincing? Yes. Explain your reasons. Motion Causality Contingency Degrees Design Aquinas' First Argument, Motion (1) Objects are in motion. (2) If something is in motion, then it must be caused to be in motion by something outside of itself. (3) There can be no infinite chain of movers/moves. (4) So there is a first, unmoved mover. (5) Therefore, God exists. I have…

Rebecca Berger Clement Philosophy 101 October, 15, 2015 Do God and Evil Coincide? The issue with the presence of evil and the existence of God is most commonly the question of “if God is all powerful and all good, why does evil exist?” or “if evil exists then would God not be all-powerful or all-good?” If God was an all-powerful being then He would be able to prevent evil things – war, disabilities, natural disasters, etc. – from happening, but since they seem to occur every day, He must not…

In Till We Have Faces, a novel, C. S. Lewis addresses multiple different themes, one of these being the nature of faith and doubt. Characters throughout this book are struggling with the existence of the gods, and their relationship with humans. C.S. Lewis expands upon this struggle by creating different situations showing the readers that faith’s nature provides comfort and spiritual wisdom while doubt leads to manipulation and denial. While writing this novel, C. S. Lewis used the Bible to…

Philosophers John Locke and George Berkeley agreed that knowledge is derived from experience. However, while Locke argued that knowledge is also acquired through our senses, such as, primary qualities, the perception, and secondary qualities, the object perceived, Berkeley argued that our minds and ideas are the sole essence of most knowledge, except knowledge of self and knowledge of God. As a subjective idealist, he believed that physical objects only exist as they are perceived. More…

A pseudoscience an idea that is an idea that is mistaken for being true or scientific fact. Because it cannot be explained does not mean that it is the supernatural. A pseudoscience topic that should be looked into ghosts and the idea of a life after we are dead. This is such a controversial topic that has left people confused for many centuries, but with the scientific advancements that we have today it’s safe to say there is no such thing. The idea of ghost has been very popular because there…