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In the debate video between William Lane Craig vs. Paul Kurtz, they both debate on whether goodness without God is good enough. Paul Kurtz is the chairman of the council for secular humanism and a professor of philosophy AmeriGas at SUNY Buffalo and William Lane Craig is a research professor of Philosophy. He also is a prodigious author of books and essays. Dr. Craig also has a doctorate degree in Theology and Philosophy. In this debate, Kurtz is going to argue that a person can be moral…

the reality that him and his father cannot help and save everyone. The boy at first is always attempting to save everyone because he believes that they are the good guys and that’s what good guys do. This illusion is then shattered when he and his father leave a man struck by lightning to die, as his father doesn’t trust him to be a good person and believes they cannot do anything. At first the boy only cries and pleads his father to help, but as their…

Physical and Moral Evil Evil has the dictionary definition of “morally wrong or bad; immoral; wicked.” Evil, as the Catholic faith would explain it, is the absence of God, everything morally good. Evil exists in this world because of the fall, when Adam and Eve committed the first sin. Their actions created sin, thus creating evil. There are two main types of evil: physical evil and moral evil. While they are both morally wrong, they are distinctly separated. The quality that separates…

“Conscience is the fundamental characteristic of being human that makes it possible to know and do good,” (Blackburn 23). Blackburn classifies conscience as the fundamental characteristic of being human, meaning that conscience is a determinant of who, or what sort of person one should be. Similarly, when Blackburn talks about conscience in this manner, there is an understanding that conscience is a part of our human design; therefore, it is a representation of who we are both internally and…

of: goodness in human actions, man’s objective of happiness, and how a human’s good action contributes to partaking in God. The Aquinas’ main argument is simply that what actions make it good or bad. In first article begins with the question regarding if our actions we as humans are good. The answer that Aquinas provides is a yes due to that every act of a man does is good and evil does not come from the virtue of good. In conclusion, no act of a man does is evil. Also the per se effect…

argue that God as an omnipresent being does in fact exist. There have always been philosophers questioning God’s existence, however the only one true argument against God’s existence is evil. They ask how can there be evil in the world if God is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful? I will now give a few points that prove God’s existence. Maybe Start by Explaining religion? I will start by addressing the importance of God’s existence. Tolstoy explains this perfectly that life is…

Part One, Thesis: The Good old question that has been around since the beginning of mankind growth in to the whole. Can good exist without evil, can we somehow get rid of the evil that plagues us all. I believe that we can’t that Evil cannot exist without good simply because they are the fabric of existence, just like yin and yang, two sides of the same coin. If you truly believe that there is evil in the world, then you must believe that there is good in the world as well. We can’t know what…

Man has a wisdom that leads him away from God in his revolution against God. Paul gives us insight into this in Romans 1:23-32. Man can persuade himself that his selfish way and his false religion are right, but this is not God’s way and it will lead to man’s own destruction. “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the ends thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12). Human foolishness appears through efforts to stand alone without God, or against God. Man develops warped…

Socrates is in search for answers about piety and the gods’ approval because he is going to be in trial for “disrespecting the gods.” In order to successfully refute Meletus’ claims he asks important philosophical questions about religion and what is truly considered holy by the gods to Euthyphro. Socrates makes an important point about holiness using metaphors about “carrying and being carried, seeing and being seen.” This leads to Socrates’ vague but plausible conclusion that what is holy…

Every story portrays an idea, or theme, that the reader most likely picks up on and follows throughout the story. A theme in “The Most Dangerous Game” is that civility and savagery are in everyone. In “The Most Dangerous Game” Richard Connell’s idea of civility and its relationship to savage, comes to life through a series of traits in Sanger Rainsford and General Zaroff and how they react to certain situations. In The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell proves, through Sanger Rainsford and…