Objection

The Investigation into Two Objections to Pascal’s Wager In his essay “Wagering belief: examining two objections to Pascal’s wager,” D. Groothuis (1994) provides two explanations of objections to Pascal’s wager. He first begins to explain the basic structure of Pascal’s wager and then proceeds to critique two objections against it. The first of these examinations is whether Pascal’s guide for invoking belief involve a forced brainwashing. The second is why a theistic belief for salvation may or…

Montaigne’s essay An Apology for Raymond Sebond, he defends the work and philosophy of Sebond, which he defines as a “bold and courageous” defense of the Christian religion using natural, human reason, meant to counter atheists (Montaigne 491). Objections arose to this work, and the one Montaigne approaches more thoroughly is that Sebond is wrong overall in his defense of faith, and that faith is not necessary in the acquisition of knowledge about worldly matters (Montaigne 500-501). This…

to aid agencies, they are doing something morally wrong. However, in objection to Singer’s arguments, John Arthur points out that if a person must do what creates the most good, then they are therefore morally wrong when not donating organs to other people, an illogical concept that contradicts Singer’s greater moral evil rule. While Singer may be able to rebut the objection points, he cannot deny the foundation of the objection, therefore rendering his argument invalid. One of the arguments…

In order to resolve these two objections, I have created a revised psychological continuity theory that builds on the memory theory and on Derek Parfit’s continuity theory. Parfit sees psychological continuity as the chain of person stages at a moment in time. He believes that two person stages are connected if they have enough overlap of psychologies connecting person stage A to person stage B. Therefore, X and Y will be psychologically continuous if Y is the end of a chain of person stages…

He then offers a weight of evidence to make their objection sound ridiculous, because even with the extinction of steroids, the game of baseball has changed, and will continue to evolve. He gives examples of improved technology in the equipment, players being more athletic due to vigorous training programs…

euthanasia being morally worse than passive euthanasia, an idea I disagree with. Then, I will explain James Rachels, an American philosopher, objection to the first argument, which tells that killing is no worse than letting die. Rachels argument goes against the idea that active euthanasia is morally worse than passive. In the end, I will discuss how Rachels objection succeeds. When presented with the question “What would be worse, to kill someone or to let someone die?” the popular answer…

In this paper I argue that procreation in a world with limited resources is morally impermissible. I agree with Thomas Young’s argument that overconsumption is morally equivalent, or no morally worse, than procreation. Excessive use of resources is considered morally wrong and as children present an excessive additional use of resources, it follows logically that production of children is unacceptable. For the sake of this argument, like Young’s, we refer to the consumption habits of Americans…

tempting food. (Monica, 2015). For my first objection to my first point is that, if a person is having a depressed eating habits then that would be enclose to health imbalance. If a dessert can emphasize your feelings and emotions upon eating it, it can also cause diabetes and it can increase one’s sugar. For example, a student being depressed by his/her requirement at school will eat a lot of sweets which is not approprate. For my second objection to my second point, the desserts can…

situation to my remembrance of a different reality. II. Descartes and others have suggested that we cannot ever know whether we are dreaming or not. Devise an argument that supports this skeptical conclusion and consider what you take to be the best objection(s) to this position. Must we accept that we really don’t know whether we are awake or dreaming? If so, is there anything we could still know about the external world? How? It is impossible to be absolutely certain that the senses I…

Zachary Burnham Philosophy 220 Professor: John Shea September 24, 2015 First Exam The ontological argument for existence of God was introduced by a monk named Anslem. St. Anslem explains his argument for existence of God by saying, “The fool said in his heart, ‘There is no God,’ but certainly that same fool having heard just what I said, “Something greater than which cannot be thought,” understands what he heard. What he understands is in his thought, but it cannot exist only in thought, for…