Pre-existence

Fate, Destiny, and You: Assessment Paper In class we watched the film The Adjustment Bureau and in this film there was many instances that challenged free will with determinism. It’s very hard to not think about fate and destiny. There are many ways to answer what exactly our destiny is. God knows our future and it already exists, and there is nothing we can do to change that. This is the theological challenge to freedom, it means that if an absolutely perfect god knows the future, presumably…

In the History of Love, Leopold Gursky’s self-identity is lost and the cause of his sense of non-existence is due to all of the losses he has encountered in his life and with every loss he becomes less sure of his existence, resulting in his invisibility in the world. Krauss uses the motif of invisibility and self-identity to show how one can become invisible if he/she loses what makes them who they are, causing them to lose sense of themselves and their self-identities altogether, resulting in…

The Doctrine of Special Revelation A cosmonaut returned to earth, the question put forth was did he see God up in space or as the book said the heavens. However, do you know went to the heavens and came back to tell everyone about? One theologian says God is dead presently him speaking for the secular world that believes they no longer need God. Can you imagine the world feeling like they can answer and solve their problems on their own? Kar Marx said religion was an opiate for the people. He…

Margaret Atherton does however, explore Berkeley’s argument as one in which is stated reasonably and coherently color does exist as a part of objects, or in other words that “snow is actually white”, and that this theory is better than previous philosophical theory. I will give a summary of her arguments before asserting my opinion that Berkeley’s argument far more beneficial to objectivists than to the whole of color theory In the world of color existing, Atherton describes two dichotomous…

what we do and do not believe. He does not manipulate our minds to believing what he wants us to believe. Descartes proves through his article that there is a God due to the fact that we cannot exist without a force that is maintaining our very own existence. If we existed without a God, that would mean that we would have created ourselves. Which leaves us with no possible way to have doubts because how can we doubt ourselves if we are our own creator who gave ourselves the knowledge of what it…

The existence of God has always been a topic of discussion. Many believe that God exists and some do not. Most reasons why there is an argument of God's existence is because of the problem of evil. The people that believe in the existence of God are called theist and those who do not are called atheist. Both have a thought of the existence of God, but atheist feels as if there is no proof. Since the free will defense is a very controversial topic, I believe that the free will defense is…

temporal parts – follows from several other premises, chief among which is the premise that existence is never vague. Kathrin Koslicki (preceding article) claims that the argument fails since its crucial premise is unsupported, and is dialectically inappropriate to assume in the context of arguing for four-dimensionalism. Since the relationship between four-dimensionalism and the non-vagueness of existence is not perfectly transparent, I think the argument would retain some interest even if the…

Augustine rejects Skepticism Augustine was a theologian and philosopher; he is known to be one of the most influential fathers in Western Christianity for his various writings. He saw humans as a unity of two elements: soul and body. He was not worried about giving exact explanations about what he thought. Augustine’s theory of knowledge begins with the thought that there is such thing as a thing called truth and this truth is accessible to human reason. He used several arguments against…

Peter Van Inwagen’s whole concept of this article was to prove through various points and arguments the conflicts of evil. He brings arguments, and ideas that disagrees with the notion of even believing that evil exists. What he begins with is the problem with believing evil exists is; say evil exists through the many happenings you have witnessed or even only heard about, so how can it not be real right? Inwagen inserts the idea that God, almighty and creator of all, does not exist if large…

Pythagorus of Samos is sometimes called the first pure mathematician. He is one of the most important figures in the development of mathematics, yet there is not a lot known about his accomplishments. This is due to his creation of a society based on religion, science, and secrecy. There are no works of his writing in which we can find out more about this illustratious figure. Most of what we know about Pythagorus’s early years were written by authors who thought of him as a God, so some…