Metaphysics

As human beings, we all have talents. Strength begins with talent. We all are capable of doing something well. It lives within us. It is a part of us that makes us unique. “Because talents are naturally recurring patterns, they are “automatic,” almost like breathing, so they repeatedly help you achieve.” (PH. DS, Clifton, O., Anderson, E., Schreiner, L., Pg 2) After completing my StrengthsQuest survey online and analyzing my results, I realized that I have many talents that I wasn’t aware of.…

101844922 PHIL 3000 Paper 2 1. What is the problem of change and how does Aristotle answer it? Parmenides argued that there cannot be any change. He believed that everything acted as parts of a unified and unchanging whole. Thus change is only an illusion as nothing is capable of inherently changing due to reality being unchangeable. He believed that only Being exists and nothing can exist outside the sphere of Being. Nothing can come to be from what it is not. Aristotle offers a solution to…

The philosophical archetype that effected me the most was Thomas Aquinas. He gave an explanation as to why bad things happen to good people, which I feel is important because it is a questions that is still commonly asked in our society. I myself have asked before that if you are a good person and God loves you than why do bad things still have to happen? I felt that Aquinas has given a good explanation as to why God allows for bad things to happen. The presence of God seems to have lessened in…

Fate - something that unavoidably befalls a person. That is the definition of fate, and the story of Romeo and Juliet says that fate is what brought the two lovers together when in reality it wasn't fate it was bad choices. God gave us the privilege of free will which means we can stay on the right path that God has planned for us or we can drift off into another path. God gave us free will but he gave us biblical guidelines that would keep us safe, and when looking for a mate Juliet should…

Anselm’s ontological argument The existence of the God have been a question probably for the whole history of humanity. There are a plenty of arguments for God’s existence, and in this paper I am going to review Anselm’s argument for the existence of the being nothing greater than which can be conceived, one of the strongest among others. At first, I am going to summarize the argument, and then, as every argument for the God’s existence has its own defects, I am going to answer the following…

Descartes would not think that his having an idea of the Evil Demon proves that the Evil Demon does exist. In the Third Meditation, Descartes goes through a thought process about his idea of God and proves the existence of God. Using the same process and principles, it will show that even though Descartes may have an idea of an Evil Demon, this does not mean that the Evil Demon exists. There are other causes of Descartes having an idea of the Evil Demon than the Evil Demon being the origination…

Hegel’s philosophy of history incorporates his reasoning of how world history exists within the realm of the Spirit. He explores the actions of men and women, and concludes that they are driven by the Spirit. “Hence it is of interest, in the course of history, to learn to know spiritual nature in its existence, that is, the point where Spirit and Nature unite, namely, human nature” (Hartman). Hegel goes on to explain the purpose of human activity by using great men in world history and what…

There does not seem to be any record of a major controversy concerning man’s freedom in the decision-making process prior to the Pelagian controversy of the 5th century. To be sure, there were debates concerning “free will” prior to the Pelagian controversy (Chrysostom, Origen, Jerome, and others opposed determinism), but none that took center stage the way the Pelagian controversy did. Pelagius, a British-born monk who resided in Rome before it fell in 410, was “roused to anger by an inert…

In “Aristotle’s Four Kinds of Explanations” Aristotle explains four causes about how we explain something. In this reading, he explains his reasoning by using the because/why in four different ways. It is important to know that Aristotle was natural scientists this was founded by Plato and him. The first explanation is “‘why is the bridge strong?’ ‘Because it is made of steel and concrete’”(Cunningham 413). To begin is must be understood that unlike Plato Aristotle thought the reason why…

Locke offers many other objections to the specific kinds of innate ideas such as identity, God and infinity. First concerning the idea of identity, Locke claims that this idea is not universally held distinctly enough to be considered innate. Secondly, he considers the idea of God but says that because different cultures and societies differ in their conceptions of God it must be a social construct implemented by society rather than an innate idea granted at birth. Lastly, Locke considers the…