One-sided argument

A good example? MTV Movie Awards is an annual show hosted by different celebrities . People vote for their favourites online and sometimes the award categories can be quite strange, such as "Best Death". The nominees gather in the audience and the winners are called up on the stage to say an acceptance speech. They are recorded and streamed on the internet for the whole world, so they are expected to behave properly, although that is not always the case. Last month, during the Movie Awards,…

Teleology is known as the doctrine of design and purpose in the material world.The Teleological Argument is also known as the Design argument.The teleological argument asserts the belief that there exists so much intricate detail, design , and purpose in the world that we must suppose a creator. This argument proves God’s existence because there cannot be intricate design and detail around the universe without a universal designer and that universal designer has to be God. Often it is…

Thomas Aquinas was an extremely influential philosopher in the 11th century, and one of the many theories he was known for was the “five ways”. The first way, which I will be endorsing, is a practical observation regarding all motions in the world. An unmoved mover exists in all of our lives, any motion that takes place in the universe has an external force acting on it, everything has the potentiality and actuality to change; however, as you continue to back track to what caused originally…

Ontology: the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such. Ontological Argument: Philosophical argument for the existence of God. God (Christian): the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority, the Supreme Being. With the ontological argument, the existence of a Christian God cannot be established through rational argument. A religious monk proposed the concept that because God is so perfect, he can’t exist only in our minds, and that…

not demonstrating the presence of God. Gaunilo was one of the main thinkers to condemn Anselm's hypothesis utilizing his 'island' hypothesis. Gaunilo requested that individuals imagine an island ''more astounding than some other island'' and he recommend that this island as indicated by Anselm's confirmation should essentially exist in light of the fact that an island which exists in all actuality would be substantially more noteworthy than one absolutely in our brains. In spite of the fact that…

Rohinie Persaud Phi 1010: Introduction to Philosophy February 17, 2015 Argument from Design The Watchmaker analogy is a Teleological Argument for the existence of God. A teleological argument is known as an argument from design, and claims that there is an order to nature that is defended by the presence of some kind of intelligent designer. A common argument occurs in The Watch and the Watchmaker by William Paley. His analogy in my opinion is insignificant and focused off of an assumption…

Throughout the history of Philosophy the topic that is filled with the most arguments is the existence of a perfect being. Many people believe that a “perfect being” is capable of existing while others believe that the “perfect being” only exists in the form of God. Philosophy is flooded with arguments for and against the existence of God. I chose the photograph of The Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci because the picture itself is of a man who seems to be completely proportional, a man who is…

John Hicks summarizes the main point of Rene Descartes’s version of the ontological argument as: “The essence or defining nature of each kind of thing includes certain predicates, and Descartes’s ontological argument claims that existence must be among the defining predicates of God… [s]o existence is a necessary characteristic of a supremely perfect being” (Hick 18). The main premise of Descartes’s argument is that God’s existence can be deducted from the nature of God. Descartes used the…

existence of God is an ongoing argument between the atheist and the Christian. While the atheist needs undeniable proof that there is in fact an intelligent being that is causally necessary for the existence of everything on earth, Christians argue that one hundred percent certainty may not be possible. Foreman offers four ways to approach this argument: the existence of God is the best explanation for certain effects in the world, we may need to offer more than one argument in order to make…

The Ontological Argument and Pascal’s Wager The “Ontological Argument” was created by Saint Anselm; this argument is in support of God’s existence. His argument is one based on observation and reason not on empirical evidence and is spit in to three parts. The parts include why god exists, why god cannot be thought to not exist, and lastly why atheists are able to think that God does not exist. In the first section he begins with a definition of God that he believes everyone would be accepting…