Philosophical arguments

Saint Anselm’s Ontological Argument has generated philosophical excitement reaching beyond its era and well into our times. Anselm's ontological argument purports to be an a priori proof of God's existence (The Ontological Argument 2016). Anselm starts with premises that do not depend on experience for their justification and then proceeds through pure logic to reach the conclusion that God exists. His purpose is to correct the fool who says in his heart that there is no God (Psalms 14:1). This…

convincing arguments against both the Ontological and Design Arguments by using his distinction between matters of…

Philosophy, Topic #2 Cosmological argument for the existence of God. Cosmological argument: An argument (or set of arguments) that undertakes to “prove” that God exists on the basis of the idea that there must have been a first cause or an ultimate reason for the existence of the universe (Introducing Philosophy, pg 661). This is the definition of this argument according to this particular book. In other words, the cosmological argument is a philosophical argument, which means that…

This argument states that the thing with enough formal reality to create the idea of the infinite is the infinite itself, which means God is real because he is the infinite. Descartes uses this argument in order to resolve what he had questioned in the beginning of the meditation; he had questioned whether or not there was a god. The cosmological argument accomplishes finding the answer to Descartes question by proving through the…

deny the status of such as a wonder, it would be a weak argument as even scientists today are left speechless about many natural events. According to William Paley, the world’s wonders are evidence that can lead to the belief in the existence of God through what was later known as the design argument (Paley 40). Although it was developed in the 18th century, Paley’s argument for God through design is still supported now with further arguments of cosmic fine-tuning, as the world is in precise…

The cosmological argument takes the presence of the universe to involve the presence of a being that made it. It is an argument that begins from the presence of the universe, and from endeavors to demonstrate the presence of God. This argument draws on involvement from the material world. It is crucial to know that the most this contention can plan to demonstrate is that there exists a vital being who caused everything in the universe. Nagel’s summary of this argument is as follows: (P1) Every…

Over a millennium after Aristotle wrote his unmoved mover argument. The Catholic philosopher Saint Thomas Aquinas reintroduced the idea as part of his five proofs for the existence of God. Aquinas’s first way is derived from motion. Following the same premise as Aristotle, Aquinas argues that a first mover, existing in a state of perfect actuality, must exist to move things from potential to actual states. Absence of this first mover would result in an infinite regress; therefore, the…

dangerous; they create room for several issues to arise such as fear in the learning environment, abuse of gun regulations, crimes like theft, and they do not increase campus safety.” In this case, the last four things listed go on to act as my major arguments for the essay. Each point is not strictly limited to one paragraph, but it is easy to see these four main points stand out as I continue with the essay. I do not say anything in that sentence that doesn’t appear later on, and I do not add…

The argument for the existence of God I find those most interesting is the Cosmological argument. The Cosmological argument starts with the idea that everything in nature has an explanatory or sensible sequence. For these sequences to exist and be so efficient it must be concluded that something must have caused them and put them into place, a thing that was not just another part of nature or sequence. To fully sum up and conclude this argument it must be put together that a powerful force or…

McCloskey assumes that the conflicts he makes only can't present a barrier for the nearness of God. McCloskey battled against the three magical confirmations, cosmological conflict, philosophical dispute, and the dispute from diagram. The Cumulative case that he shows takes the Cosmological, Theological, and Moral Arguments and amasses them. The Cosmological case makes a claim for the nearness for God, the Theological case is the shrewd case, and the Moral case is morally incredible. All…