Presupposition

It is impossible to watch the nightly news on the television or to browse an online news website without encountering a depressing story about Africa. A pirate leader in Somalia is holding the crew of a Norwegian merchant ship hostage. A traveler has spread Ebola to a new country, opening up an additional thirty million people to infection. A coup attempt failed in an African nation that the majority of Americans can’t place on a map. A famine is sweeping through an east African nation, leaving…

disbelief in God results in infinite losses. Therefore, Pascal argues everyone should choose to believe in God to maximize utility and to avoid punishment from disbelief. While interesting, Pascal’s argument is problematic because he makes several presuppositions and oversights. As an example, Pascal’s Wager does not consider the possible existence of other deities. Since most deities expect exclusive belief from their followers, if the Christian God is not the real God, then Pascal’s…

Rene Descartes associates as an Early Modern Thinker as he obtains opposing views from the Medieval Period. Descartes believes that the Medieval Period thinkers suffer corruption because of their theocentric views and negligence regarding advancing knowledge, as the medieval thinkers practice exegesis. Descartes concludes that an intellectual revolution is necessary in order to completely break with the corrupt past in order to gain new knowledge and truths. In order to achieve new truths and…

HISTORY OF LUCY SPRITIUAL IMPLICATIONS OF LUCY Lucy the character is additionally outwardly connected with Lucy the female primate (human progenitor) that experienced 3.2 million years back on earth. The fossilized Lucy was found in Africa in the nation of Ethiopia in 1974. In the climactic scene were the White female Lucy extends her hand to touch the finger of the living Lucy primate in a shot that reviews Michelangelo's 'Formation of Adam' subtle element from the roof of the Sistine Chapel-…

Torture is a controversial issue and extremely polarizing within the evangelical community. One side says that torture is never justified, while the other side says that torture is morally justified under certain straining circumstances. David P. Gushee takes the former ideology and argues in his 5 REASONS TORTURE IS ALWAYS WRONG that torture is never morally justified. Gushee forms a fairly solid argument that advocated his position with his use of historical scenarios, biblical evidence, and…

PS 331 Participation Exercise Edelman 1. The Political Spectacle a. Edelman defines the political spectacle as, “Accounts of political issues, problems, crises, threats, and leaders now become devices for creating disparate assumptions and beliefs about the social and political world rather than factual statements. The very concept of ‘fact’ becomes irrelevant because every meaningful political object and person is an interpretation that reflects and perpetuates an ideology. Taken together,…

Doctrine of What Faith Is William Brodie THEO 202 May 13, 2016 Doctrine of What Faith Is “For it is by grace you have been saved through faith.”1 Faith is a necessary requirement for eternal salvation. People are not saved because of anything that they have done, but because God has given them the gift of salvation. Salvation is the gift of grace given from God. Salvation is completely by grace because it has to be.2 Salvation is the work of God that delivers us from sin and its…

“Nothing can be conceived in the world, or even out of it which can be called good without qualification, except a good will”.(261) In the Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant defines the good will (duty/ universal law)as a rational basis for morality that would be correct for all people at all times and in all circumstances.(260) Kant saw that the good will contrasted with good fortune or what many people believed to be happiness/good character (ex Aristotle’s virtues). He…

ABSTRACT Explorations of philosophical ideas on the most suitable and ideal state has been variously conceived in contemporary political thoughts. The general will, having its origins in theological debates, ultimately became one of the most celebrated and denigrated concepts emerging from early modern political thought. For which Jean-Jacques Rousseau made it the central element of his political theory; for it means a “will that must come from all and apply to all” (Social Contract, 15) The…

a larger population in the polity. The second is that each member of a healthy democracy, polity, should have the ability to live as one wants. Aristotle believes that this is the key tenant of a democracy. He specifically says that, “Now the presupposition of the democratic sort of regime is freedom...One aspect of freedom is being ruled and ruling in turn…Another is to live as one wants.” (Aristotle 183) I agree with both of these two tenets and I will further delve into the reasoning behind…