Pre-existence

refuted. For example, in Anaximenes’ theory that all is air or Plato’s theory of the world of ideal forms, each philosopher proposed their system in the hope that they created a system that would last or would solve the question of the basis for existence for good. Similar attempts to establish a stable theory occured in epistemology. For instance, the main goal of Descartes’ radical scepticism was to find a foundation for epistemology…

The philosophical debate during the mid-1900’s is the “No-Ought-From-Is” was then debated between the philosophers and thinkers of that time. Even today's philosophers still debated about this problem. David Hume a Scottish philosopher, who is known for “No-Ought-From-is” or Hume’s law. On “Hume on is and Ought”, Pigden recognizes some errors and questions the NOFI. Some of the errors are the reasoning behind the argument itself and whether NOFI supports non-cognitivism? Finally, Pigden points…

of Evolution David Hume’s Criticisms Richard Dawkins Introduction For my E.P.Q, I decided to base it on a question which has enamored the world for the entirety of its existence. “Does God exist?”. I will be specifically looking into the Design argument, which is an empirical argument which tries to prove the existence of God. Most of the argument consists of picking out various features of the world (mainly complex, unique things) and showing that this…

The Demon in Thomas Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49 has the complex role of addressing the ideas of information, interpretation, and existence. The Demon is the functional aspect of the Nefastis machine which endlessly sorts molecules in the hopes of creating order and energy without the use of work. This process parallels Oedipa’s journey towards finding the Trystero, as she too faces the struggle of collecting information, and the problem of how to interpret the information she collects. Not only…

The word nommo means word in the Kilango language, but it has a much bigger picture. Nommo is what makes everything exist as it is. The name of something is the reason it is so different than any other thing. Rachael’s name in the Kilango village is Mvúla, which means termite. They think of her as this because the termite is very pale, as is Rachael. But they think of Rachel's paleness as a choice; she is only pale because she stays inside all day and does not go out. Nobody really likes…

Damage of religion is really a hard idea to discuss. A religion is the worship and service of a God or the supernatural that expresses a group of beliefs, ideas and existence about the universe. There are many different religions in the world. Each continent has a couple of religions, each one of them divided into many parts. Religion has played a part in distributes the struggles that have affected the whole world throughout history, Whether it was for Christian, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism or any…

intrinsic values of all living beings (see also the works of Arne Naess and George Sessions). Deep ecology promotes the view that the natural world is in a subtle balance of complex interrelationships between organisms in which their existence is dependent on the existence of others within…

This house believes that if no one believes it, then it still happened. This House is defined as “this deliberative body of Honors Communications 243” Believes is defined as “holding the view that” or “of the opinion” No One is defined as not a single person It in this context is defined as an event or occurrence due to the use of the word happen in the pro claim and happened in the con claim. An ideology, fictional work, or hypothetical example cannot “happen” or “occur” Happened is defined…

How should insiders deal with factual challenges from outsiders when discussing religion? A simple answer could be to ignore it. But would it really be that easy? Outsiders try really hard to prove one’s religion wrong. But why? Many outsiders come up with reasons to say that God does not exist or the things in a religion are not true. They try to pull people away from their beliefs. In my opinion, I feel as though if outsiders don’t believe in God or our religion they shouldn’t try proving…

If God tells Alex Rodriguez (Arod) that he will hit a homerun tomorrow, and Arod has freedom of choice, and chooses to stay home, it will seem like God’s foreknowledge is false, and not knowledge at all. However, Boethius would disagree with this statement through various reasons. First of all, Boethius claimed that everything God sees is present to him. Because God is “eternal”, which is “the total and perfect possession of life without end” (Boethius, 110,4), he can grasp and see events…