far. It also tests your ability to construct plausible arguments for or against a particular metaphysical view. GOD 1. Suppose that you’re sympathetic to Anselm’s ontological argument. How would you reply to charge that the concept of the being that than which nothing greater can be conceived, like the concept of the largest natural number, is incoherent? 2. Some philosophers have raised problems for defenders of the cosmological argument. Particularly they have showed three ways to resist
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Explain Hume’s criticisms of the teleological argument. (25) St. Thomas Aquinas’s teleological argument seeks to prove, a posteriori, the existence of an intelligent God by arguing that the world is full of inanimate, non-intelligent natural bodies which function in order, in an intelligent way. He said that for inanimate bodies to do this, they require an intelligent being to bring this action about. This being is God. The 18th-century philosopher David Hume wrote a book named Dialogues Concerning
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Explain Aquinas’ Cosmological argument. Aquinas Cosmological argument is an attempted proof of the existence of God working from the undeniable fact that the universe exists. He formulated his argument in three ways. His first formulation of the Cosmological argument was the argument from motion. He argued that everything in the universe is in a state of constant motion and change. He saw change as the motion of an object turning from a state of potentiality into a state of actuality and thought
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Ben Kemp 5/1/14 There have been many arguments formed by philosophers over the most basic question every human holds: is there a God? Cosmological arguments are arguably the most common in attempting to prove the existence of God. One of the most famous is the sufficent cause argument made famous by Saint Bonaventure. It simply states that nothing in the world is without cause. The belief being that God was the ultimate first cause of the universe, it didnt just come to be out of nothing
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This will mean getting my clothes muddy, but this is insignificant, while the death of the child would be presumably a bad thing.”(p.231) In this thought experiment provided by Peter Singer he illustrates his two arguments by presenting a situation where we sacrifice something of little moral importance for something of greater moral importance. He uses his clothes to as an example of something that has no moral significance or value, and as an item that should not
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usage. His essay is put together well, and he makes his case effectively to the reader. Examples of this can be seen in how he acknowledges the arguments that those against his opinion may make, and he does his best to prove them wrong. His use of organization, seen in how he gets the reader hooked in the first paragraph, goes through his counter arguments in the body, and provides examples throughout that prove to the reader this is an effective method, flow well with one another. By using anecdotes
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The design argument, also known as the teleological argument, in its simplest form could be defined as an ideology that argues that all this order and complexity that exists in this world has a creator or a intelligent being with a ‘rational mind’ behind it, without whom none of this would be possible. This creator is thought to be God. As I mentioned earlier, this argument is also known as the teleological argument alluding to the greek word "telos," which translates to “goal” or “purpose. (IEP)”
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The argument that I feel best explains the existence of God most clearly and simply is Argument number 2 which is the argument of efficient cause. This argument states that nothing exists prior to itself, meaning that everything that is in existence has been caused by something else. So all things that exist are the part of a series of efficient causes that happen back to back which would mean that there must be some first efficient cause that would start off this chain of causes which led us to
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give others something to think about. If something is worth believing, it is worth defending. The cosmological argument concludes that everything in the universe depends on something else for its existence. McCloskey in “On Being an Atheist” concedes that there is a power behind the universe. He however, does not see this power as a necessary being. All we can infer from the causal argument is the existence of a cause commensurate with the effect to be explained, the
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and applying them to a case in discussion. * Refutation The process of discrediting the arguments that oppose your thesis statement * Proponent Someone who argues in favor of something; advocate * Opponent A person who disagrees with something and speaks agains it * Counter Argument Point or statement in opposition to the argument being made in a written documentor speech * Pro Argument Point or statement that supports one’s ideas and/or thesis Goal of Argumentative Essay
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