Metaphysics

The argument for God’s existence has remained a constant topic of conversation, and at the head of much controversy. An argument attempting to prove the existence of God can be found through the Cosmological Argument, known also by its informal name as the “first cause argument”. The argument raises the issue of a first cause and where all things in the universe originated. This issue serves importance by highlighting conflicts humanity faces when questioning the origin of all things, and…

Descartes: The Special Causal Principle and the Existence of God In the 3rd Meditation, Descartes concludes that the he is a thinking thing and continues by determining whether there is anything that exist outside of him. Descartes then provides an argument which aim is to determine whether God exist, and this is presented as an argument for the existence of God based on an idea. In this, the Special Causal Principle arises and well as the concept of “clear and distinct ideas”. The aim of this…

Regarding the relationship between the body and the mind, people cannot avoid two important philosophy concepts:, Physicalism, and Functionalism. Physicalism believes that the only substance exist is physical. Functionalism suggests that mental states are the internal cause of behavior.(Braddon-Mitchell&jackson p41). In this paper, I will mainly discuss four perspectives about Physicalism, Functionalism and the argument “ What is it like to be”. First, what’s Physicalism? Second, the problem…

RAMANUJAN’S CONTRIUTION IN MATHEMATICS: Ramanujan’s main contribution in mathematics discusses on mainly in the analytic also game theory and infinite series. He made many in depth analytics in order for the aim to solve various mathematical problems by bringing to light new and novel ideas that gave impetus to progress of game theory. He was such a mathematical genius that he discovered his own theorems of different kinds. Ramanujan stands upright most of the time, he is one of the greatest…

Compared to Locke, Hume offered a stricter empirical explanation regarding personal identity, because he believed knowledge was only attainable through “sense-perception”. Unlike Locke, Hume avoided appeals to God and did not trust the human senses—seeing, smelling, hearing, feeling, and tasting. For instance, Locke stated, “God is without beginning…and therefore concerning his identity there can be no doubt” (x); nevertheless, Hume rejected appeals to God and focused on experiences, which…

The most serious objection to Descartes claims attacks the Connection Principle. Without the Connection Principle, Descartes has nothing outside of himself. The Connection Principle is based on the idea that everything has a cause. His entire argument for the Existence of God and by extension, the external world, relies on the premise that it is impossible for him to have an innate idea that does not have any correlation to the real world. Descartes considered the notion that the idea of a…

Truly, the idea of the conversion of the saint or the hero is beyond reality. Both are metaphors describing a fictitious character that may or may not exist. “That neither future nor past actually exist” (CAHN 397) declares Augustine in his Confessions. Dr. Ambrosio’s attempt to solidify the notion of universality with the integration of the hero and saint by discussing the character traits of historical figures as described in literature. The Saul of Tarsus, Augustine of Hippo, and the…

Student Name: |Grace Pavey | | |Student No: |PAV10137547 | |Course: |Access to HE | | | | |Lecturer: |Jim Mawby | |Subject: |Philosophy | |Date: |7 Feb 2010 | Explain and assess one or more Descartes’ arguments for the existence of God Descartes…

Suhrawardī and Jāmī on Wujūd Shahāb al-Dīn Yaḥyā al-Suhrawardī (d. 1191) in his Philosophy of Illumination proposes this radical view that wujūd is merely a being of reason (iʿtibār aqliyya) which does not exist (laysa bi-mawjūdin) in the extra-mental, concrete world. This view, however, was rejected by the fifteenth-century Persian poet and Sufi master in the Akbarian tradition, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Jāmī (d. 1492) of Herat in his Treatise on Existence. In this short essay, I begin by trying to…

“Rationalism is the belief that at least some knowledge about reality can be acquired through reason, independently of sense experience.”. Rationalism was a philosophical movement that appeared around 500 BC and is often described as one of the most important theories of philosophy. It consist of three main basic claims: The Intuition/Deduction Thesis, The Innate Knowledge Thesis and the The Innate Concept Thesis. For a philosopher to claim himself as a rationalist, he has to apply at least one…