controversial subject of slavery reparations. Accordingly, the evidence, structure, and thesis of the argument should uphold a level of both professionalism and pragmatism in supporting the argument. While Coates’ supports his arguments with facets from the physical, economic, social, and political aspects of injustice with according evidence, the lack of cohesiveness from the text weakens the aptitude of the argument. These factors noted in terms of structure, evidence, and failure in…
Dr. Thompson has done an amazing job gathering together and discussing many of the reason for unbelief as well as many of the solutions to the philosophic, theological, or scientific charges against God and the Bible. The first few chapters in the book discuss the differences between unbelief. Some people claim to be atheists while others see themselves as agnostics. Clarification is given about what constitutes a skeptic or an infidel. Dr. Thompson also defines and discusses deism, pantheism,…
The cosmological argument supports by initiating that something (God or a creature of such power) had to have created something as big as a universe. Since this creature created the universe, it can not be included in the universe. Think of it like this, picture an artist…
cosmological argument, in it’s simplest terms, can be broken up into a few understood points that make it what some to believe the answer to God’s existence. The same form of argument that the cosmological argument possesses can actually be applied to discrediting the existence of God. The origin of time and the relationship between an infinite set of causes and effects and if it has a creator both work together in forming good points against the credibility of the cosmological argument made for…
nature as the omnipresent, enveloping cause of everything in the universe. Consequently, Aristotle does not set any limitation to nature and its causes. Nature becomes the cause of nature in absolute. Thus, Aristotle presents a fallacy of a circular argument. By claiming that nature causes nature, he supports his claim with the exact same premise. Rothenberg examines this fallacy as he refutes this idea by responding to this objection. 8. In response to Aristotle’s objections, Rothenberg…
Anselm’s ontological argument The existence of the God have been a question probably for the whole history of humanity. There are a plenty of arguments for God’s existence, and in this paper I am going to review Anselm’s argument for the existence of the being nothing greater than which can be conceived, one of the strongest among others. At first, I am going to summarize the argument, and then, as every argument for the God’s existence has its own defects, I am going to answer the following…
The cosmological argument for God’s existence is one of the most revered of the classical arguments for theism. Throughout history, it has found defenders from Aristotle to Aquinas to Leibniz, to name a few. There are actually three main variations of the cosmological argument: the kalam argument for a temporal first cause of the universe, the Thomistic argument for some ultimate ground of ontological being, and the Leibnizian argument for a necessary explanation of why the universe exists at…
A good example? MTV Movie Awards is an annual show hosted by different celebrities . People vote for their favourites online and sometimes the award categories can be quite strange, such as "Best Death". The nominees gather in the audience and the winners are called up on the stage to say an acceptance speech. They are recorded and streamed on the internet for the whole world, so they are expected to behave properly, although that is not always the case. Last month, during the Movie Awards,…
originally caused the motion you will reach the unmoved mover, and this consists of any type of change, not just motion; therefore, it is obligatory to arrive to a first mover, put in motion by no other, this is God. The first way is known as the argument from motion. Aquinas…
Ontology: the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such. Ontological Argument: Philosophical argument for the existence of God. God (Christian): the creator and ruler of the universe and source of all moral authority, the Supreme Being. With the ontological argument, the existence of a Christian God cannot be established through rational argument. A religious monk proposed the concept that because God is so perfect, he can’t exist only in our minds, and that…