... the universe, were initially created by a Supreme Being. Everything in the universe and the universe itself must have been created because an entity cannot be created without the use of existing entities. Earth, for example, is made up of many different nonliving and living matters such as rocks, plants, water, clouds, humans, animals etc. These entities can be further broken down ... imperfect, a Supreme Being, who has to be unlimited and perfect, must exist. Rene Descartes clearly expresses this idea as he states: Granted, however, that I could not cogitate God except as existing, jus...

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... parts that through time would allow them to form a whole. Perdurantists also claim that at all times all things existing at those times are equally real. Just because an object is not wholly existing in the now does not mean that it is not real. It is real, but is merely a portion ... is irrelevant, because the bottom line is that you do exist at various times. So when discussing a person who existed yesterday and that same person existing today, an endurantist would pick out a concrete particular and compare the two from the two different times. This means then that persistence through t...

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... something that we must triumph over in order to be happy and free. De Beauvoir discusses the term freedom. She says that freedom involves existing. And again, in terms of the sub-man, he is afraid of existing. "Thus fundamental as a mans fear in the face of existence maybe, though he as chosen from his earliest years to deny his presence in ... the world, he cannot keep himself from existing, he cannot efface the agonizing evidence of his freedom."(45 Ethics) De Beauvoir says that freedom is destined for everyone, whether they chose it or not. In her quote "ethics ... a man's fear in t...

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... God means infinite goodness. He defines this as a being that is all good, powerful, and all knowing. With this definition the objection of evil existing arises. Evil exists in this world. It is seen everywhere, in every city and in every country. Although evil itself cannot be seen its influence is ... best decision there must be some sort of doubt, some bad in order to make a the best possible choice. There must be some sort of evil existing in a perfect world if it is one where god wants free choices to be made. Having evil in their world is a condition that is needed ... to Plato wit...

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... existence. Therefore, God exists even to the nonbelievers understanding. Anselm also states that whatever is understood exists in the understanding. He also tells us that existing in reality is greater the existing only in the understanding. If existing in reality is greater, then God had better exist in reality, as well as in the understanding. Otherwise, we could conceive of something better, and ... ...

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... any such thing as matter and if so what is its nature. The first philosopher to bring forward the reasons for regarding the immediate objects of our senses as not existing independently of is was Bishop Berkley. His goal was to prove that there is no such thing as matter and that the world consists of nothing but minds and their ... all. So with this in mind Bekley goes on to explain what he really means in denying matters existence and relying on God for an answer to why objects continue existing without our seeing them. Berkeley had a number of objections of an external world of mater...

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... not? The question is God existing or not, ask lots of people. Many people trying to find the correct answer on this question in science, books. I want to state some information what I experienced and what I personally ... me around, because if it had not, I would still be lost and confused, seeking for this happiness and never finding it. That was a big lesson for me to of God's existing. Here is one more proof. We know so it is wrong to kill and everybody can consent with it, inside we just know it. And we are right in saying ... ...

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... existence. If he were trying to prove that God does exist (which he is not), he would not try to prove that God exists yet he would prove that some existing being is a God. Kierkegaard states that God is not a name, but it is merely a concept. Humans are all selfish beings who love themselves more than anyone else. Yet this love ... equal state of each other. 4. Sartre believes that his version of existentialism gives humans more dignity than Christianity does. He represents atheistic existentialism which states that if there is no existing God, there is at least one being whose existen...

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... sense exist. If it did not exist then it is nothing, so one would be speaking or thinking about nothing, which would be empty. It can be assumed that the existing thing did not just come into existence because saying that would allude to a time when it did not exist. Parmenides then infers that ... existing things are eternal because they cannot go out of existence. Parmenides concludes his argument by claiming that change is an illusion, on the grounds that a change in a thing implies that ... ...

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... , or b) if they are real, can you exist in both of them at the same exact time? "The Matrix- is referred to as a dream-like place. My argument for actually existing in the matrix is the old saying, "I think, therefore I am."" You never cease to think, because if you did you simply would not exist. Therefore, even when you are dreaming ... time, however that doesn't apply to ALL the time. You cannot exist in the Matrix while you are awake. This technically means that you cannot exist in the Matrix without existing in what we know as the real world at the same time. Of course this would on...

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... physical world with a God beyond this world, but they could not. So I am left with David Hume's argument, "that there cannot be a necessary being, because anything we can conceive of existing, we can conceive of as not ... ...

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... only characteristics or qualities can clarify or describe a concept, and since existence is neither it cannot be utilized in the argument. Kant then points out that the concept of God existing cannot be derived from the definition of him being all perfect, just as the concept of a leprechaun or unicorn's existence cannot be derived from it's definition. Another problem with the ... must keep this in mind, to assume guided evolution is to assume the existence of the main thing we want to explain, namely organized complexity. It simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious in...

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... , there is only one God, and this God is sufficient. God must exist if He is possible. His possibility is sufficient of itself. There is nothing to prevent God from existing, and nothing to prevent his being from being possible so he exists. God creates unrelated atomic units and fits them together in creation. There must be a sufficient reason even if ... the sensation of heat from the object heat. Berkeley also talks about matter as an inert senseless substance, in which extension, figure, and motion do actually subsist. They are ideas existing in the mind. The mind is the only substra...

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... forlornness addresses his view of life and humans. Sartre's views are based on the basic ideas of existentialism. The belief that existence precedes essence states that there is "no pre-existing concept of man."(Sartre) In the existentialist view, humans are what they make of themselves. They believe that people were indefinable at first; "he first appears, then defines himself." There ... to the individual. A person is entirely free with no outside sources having an impact on them. Sartre embraced the views and concepts of the atheistic existentialist. To touch more on existing and whe...

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... that the idea is Innate, or that there are innate ideas at all? Three similar objections can be raised, the first being that God can be thought of as not existing. That is, we can separate his existence from his essential attributes. Since, according to some critics, we can conceive of God as not ... existing, then existence is not a necessary attribute of this idea. A further objection to Descartes' proof is that even though a necessary attribute of a mountain is that it be adjacent to a valley, it ... ...

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... only characteristics or qualities can clarify or describe a concept, and since existence is neither it cannot be utilized in the argument. Kant then points out that the concept of God existing cannot be derived from the definition of him being all perfect, just as the concept of a leprechaun or unicorn's existence cannot be derived from it's definition. Another problem with the ... must keep this in mind, to assume guided evolution is to assume the existence of the main thing we want to explain, namely organized complexity. It simply postulates an already existing being of prodigious in...

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... as, "All these points demonstrate sufficiently that up to this point it was not a well founded judgment but only a blind impulse that formed the basis of my belief that things existing outside me send ideas or images of themselves to me through the sense organs or by some other means." (Descartes, Meditations on the First Philosophy) Finally after this agonizing and ... after breaking down thought, innate and adventitious ideas, Descartes simply says that the idea of this God is innate and born within him and that the fact that God is existing in his mind, God must be perfect. God was m...

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... can conceive of a GCB that exists in reality as well as in the mind. Every person should be able to get a mental image in their mind of a greatest conceivable being existing in both reality and in their heads. Therefore, there is a being that is greater than the greatest conceivable being. But this is impossible, for it is a contradiction. It is a contradiction ... island. An island that's simply the greatest island that anybody will ever imagine. I can conceive of it in my mind only though. But wait, that's silly, why couldn't I imagine it existing, some uncharted desert isle, it could...

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... know about anything in relation to your past experiences and even past existence? Since everything that goes on in your head may or may not be connected to or even existing in the external world, it may or may not be possible that you yourself existed in the past. Skepticism of the past argues the possible idea that perhaps you just ... there is no possible way for us to be sure that there is anything actually going on outside of our mind. So, if we can't be sure of real things existing in the physical world, how can we possibly be sure of events that happened to us, or for that matter,...

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... ," as Laura Mulvey writes in Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, "can exist outside linear time as the erotic instinct is focused on the look alone."(Visual and Other Pleasures p.19) Existing outside of the flow of time, capable of capturing perfect erotic moments, purely visual; the photograph is the perfect fetish of scopophilia. Through Marcel Duchamp's Given: 1) The Waterfall, 2) The Illuminating ... their mastery of perspective, finely crafted tapestries, delicate furniture, and Madeline are all passive, dead objects of the museum; positioned for the spectator. They are powerless ...

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... his theology he entirely rejects this idea and strongly speaks against it in many of his writings. Therefore, in the practical context of his theology the notion of God as existing without a world is not really a viable or valid option. Lodahl should own this recognition and not default to his fall back position that he didn't say that God without a world ... ...

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... , in which the brain concludes that a certain sensation is real. If reality exists how our minds perceive it to be, then wouldn't it be conceivable that the world has been existing before the human eyes for thousands (or probably even billions) of years is not really "real"? How do we really say that the world that we live in is "real ... ...

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... concept of existence is illogical, like a triangle without its three sides. We must use our reason to support our faith in God, and see that thinking of God as not existing or imperfect is absurd. 20th century Swiss theologian, Karl Barth, placed emphasise on faith and God's self-revelation, rather than the use of reason that Anselm favoured. Barth criticised Anselm ... ...

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... the omega" (Bonaventure, The Mind's Road to God 5.7). God is not bounded by any time; therefore, God is eternal. Now, the trait of being present, is defined as either existing now or not having an existence in the past or future. According to Bonaventure, "For since [God] is eternal, it does not come from another; nor does it cease ... ...

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... that, Our ideas are not subjected to our will, but exhibit an order independent of our will." (Kellenberger) And therefor there must be a Great Mind, or God, who perceives all existing things. He perceives all things, even those which we do not perceive and he creates the order of our perceptions. Bertrand Russell starts out with the same outlook as Descartes ... ...

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