Ontology

An Earthly Knight By: Janet McNaughton Book Review -Pauline Artienda An Earthly Knight is a novel about Lady Jeanette Avenel (Jenny), a sixteen-year-old girl who is faced with an event that will change her life. She is a willful girl who has so much freedom being the second daughter of a Norman nobleman. Suddenly, everything changes when her older sister, Isabel had brought disgrace to their family. Now, Jenny has to take the duties of her sister. Considering all those responsibilities,…

Picture a world in which you are the only mind. A world in which you are the only truly thinking being. In this world, you cannot be sure if others are having thoughts because they have a mind or if they are just simply a robot that is physically but not mentally present. This world is thought by some to exist, yet there are also many who oppose this philosophy known to many as the problem of other minds. From concepts coined by philosophers such as Bertrand Russell, John Stuart Mill, P.F.…

Olivia Murphy Andrew Vlcek PHIL 130 009 28 September 2015 Prompt #4 In the Third Meditation, “The Existence of God”, Descartes’ offers an argument for the true existence of God. The Third Meditation discusses what is real and the justifications behind it. In an earlier Meditation, Descartes admits he is doubtful of his body, but is convinced that he exists. He clearly and distinctively recognizes this, however, he could not be completely sure unless all perceptions are distinct and coherent.…

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…

In this essay, I will defend for the existence of God. First I will present Anselm’s ontological argument for the existence of God on the claim that he is the greatest conceivable being, then I will present Gaunilo’s objection for the unsoundness of Anselm’s argument on the claim of which there are no set limitations for the characteristic of the greatness, which I think fails. I will show that Anselm’s ontological argument can withstand Gaunilo’s objection by emphasizing the maximal…

I chose the second topic for my essay, and I am gone to discuss how Augustine’s conception of sin as it is developed in The Confessions, and also talk about how does the conception of sin derive from a dualistic conception of the universe, in which body and spirit, as well as the earthly and heavenly realms, are mainly differentiated. As the meaning in religious, sin always means the act that violates God’s will. And also sometimes sin could be viewed as a violation of the relationship between…

If humans consider themselves to be the dominant race, the most evolved and capable of all other races, why would humans then put their hope into a mystical being without substantial physical proof? What causes humans to lead their lives centered around the idea that there is a god that will save them and give them eternal life? Sartre in his piece, “Existentialism”, lays out why god is man-made. While his argument is for his personal goal to show that man in responsible for man, he also shows…

Thus, his job is the “cataract” that disables him from truly living, and keeps him from establishing relationships with those around him and wholly expressing his creativity. Gabriel Conroy experiences similar feelings of disillusionment in James Joyce’s The Dead. Gabriel lives in a “cloud” of misperceptions, and constantly suffers from obsessive misinterpretations of how others perceive him. As a result, Gabriel possesses a close-minded and defensive attitude, which affects his ability to…

In The Presumption of Atheism , Michael Scriven argues that when arguments for the existence of God are unable to provide the evidence required to maintain this conclusion (and Scriven believes this to be the case for all such arguments) the only position that one can rationally maintain is atheism. I will first elaborate the salient points of Scriven’s reasoning in arriving at his conclusion and then attempt to challenge some of the assumptions that Scriven makes in the course of his argument,…

The doctrines of unique worth of human beings are based on biblical scriptures and revelations. The assertions are similar to Laudato Si’s divine mind. According to Laudato Si Si’s, human beings were created in the image of God. He created man and woman in his image. The concept became the Christological basis of human dignity placing them above the other creations. Laudato Si further states that human beings are the core of God’s nature and they have a major responsibility for taking care of…