... I thought on that day." Or "I will continue to exist, because I am thinking now." Therefore, the existence of I can only be proved to be right when the moment of existing is equal to the moment of thinking, in other words, I can only prove that I exist at this moment, by thinking at the same time. "Cogito Ergo Sum" is ... not an idealistic proposition. Some people claim that this proposition is subjectively idealistic, they interpret it as thinking leads to existing. If thinking leads to existing, then "my illusion" creates the world, which makes this sentence subjectively idealistic. H...

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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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... 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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... 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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... , 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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... 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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... 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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... , 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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... a social organization. Since human beings can not exist without a social system, which can not function without politics, it proves Plato's claim that human beings are political animals. The importance of existing though freedom, knowledge, and enlightenment is accentuated by Plato on The Republic. He uses the cave allegory to highlight how human beings will not survive the darkness unless they act ... ...

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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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Existentialism is a philosophy that accentuates personal subsistence, sovereignty and preference. It is the analysis, that individuals classify their significance in life, and attempt to craft rational decisions in spite of existing in an irrational life. Existentialism focuses on the uncertainty of human existence, also the opinion that there is no purpose or justification at the heart of reality. It possesses' that, ... ...

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... the history of societies much longer than we generally care to believe. It is not to be dismissed from the minds and souls; it creates its own institutions or penetrates existing ones and is sometimes deposited in the deepest layers of thinking and feeling, of wishing and acting (Alperovitz)." The existence of violence is important for children to know. Violence permanently ... ...

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... . Locke agree with Descartes" idea of physical substance, but runs into problems because Locke can only know what originates in our senses. George Berkeley continues with the idea of substance existing only in their being perceived. Physical substance can not be known to have any other existence that in the characteristics we perceive. What follows from Berkeley's argument is that the ... ...

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... lies in their views of forms are related to particular things. Aristotle rejects the idea of transcendent forms for an idea of immanent forms. It is a view of forms as existing within particular sensible things. He overcomes Plato's unbridgeable chasm between forms and sensible things by asserting that forms can be causes of things only if they are in those things ... ...

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... all thinking, the rule of all living. (p.117) St. Augustine felt that the Platonic philosophers were most accurate in their depiction that God could not have been produced by any existing thing, but He Himself is the maker of all things. (p.119) They believed that since the mind is the decipherer of beauty that it is true that there must me ... ...

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... that this idea may have been formed from "earlier preconceptions, or from books or from discussion with friends and so on, and not simply from your mind or from an existing supreme being." The author also states that we have in fact no idea or image relating to the idea of God, as it is impossible for us a finite beings to ... ...

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... Gurdjieff's system is the place of man in the universe. He saw the cosmos as a living thing, kept and fed by the law of reciprocal maintenance - whereby every class of existing things produces energies or substances that are required for maintaining the existence of other classes. "Man, like every other living or non-living thing, is an 'apparatus for the transformation ... ...

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... maius cogitari possit" which means nothing greater can be conceived. In the next stage of Anselm's argument, he wanted to demonstrate that it is impossible to conceive of God not existing. God is eternal and, therefore, must be. Anselm felt that he had demonstrated not only the existence of God but also that his existence is "necessary" (must be). Descartes developed ... ...

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... an object and the process of assigning definitions removes us from its reality. He felt that if we only allow one name for things then we eliminate all of the existing possibilities. His proposal was that we should definitely think, but that our thoughts must go beyond mere observation and instead explore the possibilities that exist in everything. In doing so ... ...

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... to the challenge in the belief that excellence can emerge from democracy. " Thus, for Nietzsche, "democracy is a regression to progress. " On the other hand, for Freud morality is a natural process existing in the individual before he joins society, and in human relations before civilization. Evidently, Nietzsche sees the past as an explanation for the continuing development of morality, whereas Freud sees ... ...

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I find Aquinas's argument totally unconvincing. There are two parts to this argument that are left out of the popular version. First, Aquinas argues that nothing can be its own cause. In order for something to be a cause of anything, it must already exist. So, if something were to be its own cause,...

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... have the knowledge of how things evolved. Thus, Aristotle explaining that we have the potential to become an actual. Aristotle used a term called ousia to refer primarily to the particular, existing thing. There are two substances of ousia which are ousia prote, the first substance called "thises", ousia deutera known as the second substance is what the particular thing has in ... ...

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