Regress argument

In this paper, I will be examining Descartes" ontological argument. I will begin with an explanation of the argument. I will next seek to establish that the argument relies upon the epistemic criterion that Descartes has laid out for himself I will consider several questions about the nature of the argument and the properties of some of the premises. Descartes seemed to believe that the ontological argument for God could be understood through pure intuition, but even if he thought it unnecessary…

and arguments by philosophers. The existence of God is discussed well in books such as the assortments of the world and these are important as they reveal that truly the greatest being existed. It is true that the leading argument about the existence of God was presented by Anselm in the ontological argument. This philosopher argument moves to the extent of making sure that it shows well that God exists and does not, in any case, defend on jurisdictions. Philosophers while making an argument…

opinion on why he did not believe in God. In his article he gives his opinions of the cosmological, and teleological arguments. The main argument he makes in his article is about the evil and hardship in the world which is suppose to be created by a caring and loving God. Though H.j Mcloskey wanted to have proof and contrary to his opinions of the cosmological and theological arguments along with his case for the problem of evil, his article only points to the fact that the only logical…

Paley’s Watchmaker Argument St. Thomas Aquinas’ Fifth Way The Anthropic Principle (including Richard Swinburne’s Anthropic Coincidences) Graham Priests Version Against the statement to be evaluated: Charles Darwin’s Theory 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…

Second Way: Argument from Efficient Causes Everything effect that occurs is a result of a cause. If a prior cause does not occur, neither will the preceding effect. Therefore,…

Xenophanes A watch doesn’t exist out of nothing. Someone had to create the pieces than mend them together. There must have been a creator the one that makes the watch just as the universe has a creator. The universe didn’t just come from existence there had to be something that made the universe. Xenophanes a wondering poet and philosopher born in Colophon, around the year 570 B.C. believed in one and only one divine God that created the universe. He claimed to neglect the Olympian gods because…

God, Design, and Critiques When discussing the arguments from design for God’s existence a few names transcend into our thoughts higher than the others. St. Thomas Aquinas, William Paley, and David Hume are these people. Aquinas was born in the year 1225 and was a Dominican monk. Paley was born in 1743 and worked as the archdeacon of Carlisle. Hume was a skeptical empiricist born in Scotland in 1711. They have used their brain power to write various literature discussing whether the design we…

essence of goodness, love, justice, compassion, and mercy; the protector of the innocent and the faithful; the enemy of the wicked and the infidel. God is pure spirit with no material substance and neither beginning nor end” (White, pg. 284). These arguments of God’s existence are believed to have not been established beyond suspicion. However, faithful believers suggest that truths observed in our environment can help to better explain that a God must exist. These claims that a God must exist…

have to be far beyond the human mind and therefore, people would never actually understand who or what he is. Anselm’s argument for the existence of God struck me hard because in a way he is arguing something which I believe but, he uses the line of thought as a way to prove the existence of God rather than using it to shut the door as I had done. By looking at Anselm’s first argument for the existence of God I felt lost as to a rebuttal to his claims. However, by looking at Darwin’s explanation…

Gaunilo responds to the Ontological Argument by saying that the argument “proves too much”. By this, Gaunilo means that the Ontological Argument could be applied to anything, not just God; even things that we know do not exist. The example that Gaunilo uses is conceiving the most perfect island than which no greater island is possible. The most perfect island must exist in reality and in the mind, because if it did not, then it would be possible to conceive of an island greater than the most…