Pyrrho

because when analyzing certain situations, there are no other explanations other than God. For example, the big debate that will never come to an end is the starting of the universe. If one believes in faith, they believe God created the universe. If one believes in reason, they believe that the universe was created through a combination of different molecules to create the “big bang”. The problem with each belief is where did it all come from? If matter cannot be created nor destroyed, where did the matter that started the “big bang” come from? The combined belief in faith and reason has become such a strong solution that it remained prevalent through the Middle Ages (Introduction). The first school of thought to be discussed is Skepticism. Pyrrho of Elis was believed to be the founder of the school, even though the school took after much of the earlier Sophists’ principles (BOOK). A main target of attack was dogmatism, a disease…

defiant deity. Like Captain Ahab in his monomaniacal scavenger hunt for the white whale, Melville was drawn to, yet defied by, this anything-but-cooperative, ever-thwarting deity. His questions and his quest produced one of the world’s greatest novels, yet his empirical search after God only left him in ambiguity and angst. The novel is pigmented with biblical allusions such as “the angel Gabriel,” “the blackness of darkness and the weeping and wailing and teeth-gnashing,” “thou young Hittite,”…