Regress argument

There is no right or wrong decision to buy the shoes, or not, in this decision it is best to remain neutral showing the pros and cons of this decision. In a debate to buy or not a new pair of expensive and designer shoes. Eddie and his mother have a dilemma, Eddie has enough money to buy a pair of expensive, designer, and trendy shoes. Eddie believes that if he puts his money towards the shoes he could buy happiness. Meanwhile Eddie’s mother believes happiness cannot be purchased, but memories…

Samuel Clark provides a convincing demonstration in Section (IV) where establishes the existence of an independent and unchangeable being that has always existed. He believes that there are two options when it comes to the explanation of how things have come to be. The first, is his acceptable premise that a “being has always existed in some one unchangeable, and independent” form. (p. 10) The other premise is that “there has been an infinite succession of unchangeable and dependent beings,…

proposes multiple arguments to his fellow atheists that the God’s existence is not justifiable or sound. The main arguments McCloskey debates in his article are the Cosmological argument, the teleological argument, and the argument of design. He sums up atheistic debate with the problem of evil and how it directly serves against the existence of God. The first thing should be noticed about McCloskey’s arguments is how he claims his arguments are absolute proofs. Many of his arguments throughout…

Saint Anselm’s Ontological Argument has generated philosophical excitement reaching beyond its era and well into our times. Anselm's ontological argument purports to be an a priori proof of God's existence (The Ontological Argument 2016). Anselm starts with premises that do not depend on experience for their justification and then proceeds through pure logic to reach the conclusion that God exists. His purpose is to correct the fool who says in his heart that there is no God (Psalms 14:1). This…

St. Anselm, an Italian monk, first initiated the ontological argument. He was a firm As a firm believer in God and hoped to prove and share his strong faith on God’s existence by using logic and reason. He defines God as ‘something than which nothing greater can be thought.’ Anselm states that there is a difference between understanding God as a concept and understanding him to exist. To back up this claim he uses the analogy of a painter. He elaborates that the first step a painter takes is by…

way “Efficient Cause.” In this proof, Aquinas states that everything is caused or created by other things. He states that every effect has a cause and that cause is an effect of another cause, and so on and so forth. An example to help explain his argument is a coffee table. The creator of a coffee table is the builder or the carpenter. (The cause is the carpenter and the effect was the coffee table). The parents had created the carpenter (The cause is the parents and the effect is the…

Aquinas formed The Third Argument on Contingency, he believed that since the universe could have once not existed, there had to be a causable explanation for its existence. if everything in the world proceeds to be contingent than how could anything exist in the first place? Portraying that there had to be a necessity or nessasary being that was the cause of all these contingent things. Could it be god? I very much agree with aquinas, the world we live in is in a very cause and effect manner.…

convincing arguments against both the Ontological and Design Arguments by using his distinction between matters of…

School is a place that some people dread, yet some love. This should not be the case at all. Everyone should be able to go to school and be comfortable with the situation and ready to learn. How you feel when you go to school depends on your relationship with the teachers and the other students, as well as your memories in the school. Odds are, when a teacher tries to control your every move, you do not like said teacher. However, there is no efficiency in a classroom that has no discipline or…

The ontological argument, first proposed by Anselm of Canterbury, is an argument that uses premises and reason to prove that God exists. In this paper, I will explain Anselm’s arguments for the existence of God and Guanilo’s response against Anselm’s reasoning. I will then evaluate the arguments given by both Anselm and Gaunilo. In his work, Proslogion, Anselm uses reductio ad absurdum to argue that God exists. Reductio ad absurdum is a form of argument where a premise is disproven by following…