... and have been a very debatable question for many centuries. So what or better yet, who exactly is 'God'? Each religion has its own definition of God. This world has over 350 religions in this world, meaning there are more than 350 gods in this world. But in this essay, I will focus on the Christian god. ... . St. Thomas Aquinas (1224 – 1274) was philosopher, theologian, and Dominican priest, also known as the Angelic Doctor. He was considered as one of the greatest Christian philosophers of all time. Two of his finest examples of work are on Christian philosophy include the Summa...

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... began to write his three famous books, Discourse on Method, Meditations on First Philosophy and Principles of Philosophy where his passion for philosophy and mathematics could shine. In my term paper, I will be focusing on specific passages from Meditations on First Philosophy, which was written in 1641. Meditations on First Philosophy is a discussion of metaphysics, or what is real. In these writings, he ultimately hopes to ... be originated from a perfect source or God." Another way which Descartes proves the existence of God is through an "Ontological" proof. This states that an esse...

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... in the universe is an infinite being or finite being? If the being had set forth motion and somehow was destroyed, then is it by definition a God? In philosophy of religion, a God is defined as something that is transcendent above man. God is supposed to exist in a reality that transcends space and time. If the one who set forth motion ... to be Gods. But beliefs in more then one God would change the whole idea of Christianity and mostly every other monotheistic religion on the face of the earth. Lastly, the fact that things are in motion is a sense experience. Motion can be seen, hear...

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... , seeing that some have believed God to be a body." This idea shows that since different people have different concepts of God, this argument works only to convince those who define the notion of God in the same way. (The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) Another fallacy is that Anselm holds that the greatest thing conceived is God. Is this truly the case? Is it ... argument that shows how the existence of God came to be. In argument form, he states, 1. Every being is either a dependent being or an independent being. 2. Either there exists an independent being or every being is depend...

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... to unexplained questions, while never providing answers to the questions about God himself. This is evidenced a great deal in the circular argument made by Descartes in the Meditations on First Philosophy. What follows is a brief account of the third and fifth meditations, which provide Descartes' response to the masked question, "What is God?" Can one perceive or confirm the existence ... scripture that has been deemed to come from your god is also the proof that God exists. This is the type of circular definition that Descartes is trying to avoid at all costs. Basically, it's like usi...

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... produces a radically contrasting approach to life from Lucretius, the first of the Epicureans. One of the clearest reasons for Plato's domination of human thought is revealed early in the Timaeus. In discussing the origins of this world, he designates the Demiurge, or his equivalent of the contemporary God as the creator of the universe. Because his philosophy was much easier to "Christianize," it seems reasonable to think ... things grow smaller, and everything melt, so to speak as years go by.(30)" By basing much of his philosophy on his observations, he disagrees with Plato who discou...

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... 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 ... example, an earthquake, which may seem as something bad, is not intentionally meant to harm others. It exists as a cause of nature in which humans have no control. Although natural disasters do cause injury and human suffering, it selves as a tool to ... time an aristocracy will decay to a timocracy, to an oligarchy, then a democracy and then eventually to ty...

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... century, better known as the Enlightenment, initiated a paradigm shift in metaphysical thought. Empiricism and Rationalism are contrasting schools of philosophy which portray the attitudes of the Enlightenment, these philosophies radically changed the contemporary thought of religion, and human existence, but most importantly empiricism, academically questioned the existence of God. Descartes, a chief exponent to rationalism, argued the Empirical premises and maintained that God necessarily exists. Descartes ... attributed to sense data George Berkeley's (1685-1753) concept of God was f...

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