Existence

adherents to be actively meaningful and serious and either based on: formally documents doctrine, or established cultural practises [1]. Religion in philosophy presents many quandaries and theories surrounding the existence of the “supreme being” God with arguments concerning the universe’s existence, and humans’ ability to understand the nature, intentions and involvement of God. The main argument focused on throughout this essay is the ontological argument, claiming that once humans understand the concept

William Robertson Smith, a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland, once said that, "The god can no more exist without his people than the nation without its god." This quote means that the amount of belief that people have on God reflects on how much hope God has for a nation. This quote ties into various discussions that have been going on for a long time, and that is whether or not God exists. A well known philosopher who

through faith, you have been able to believe that I exist. But what is my reason for existence? This question needs to be answered in order for you to understand why the world exists, for without me there would be no world. I exist, because my existence is good. The world you live in, the universe you wonder upon, and the humans you interact with on the daily are the outcomes of my divine doing and without my existence, none of this would be possible. There exists a world because I have caused it to

The Existence of Two Egos in "Death by Landscape" 0369012 Mi Sung Park The short story "Death by Landscape" well describes the psychology of Lois, the heroine of the story. One incident that occurred to her when she was 13 years old, affects her whole life. As a thirteen year old, she looses her best friend, Lucy, on a canoeing trip in a summer camp. While Lucy was going to the bathroom behind a tree on the edge of a cliff overlooking a river and Lois waiting where she wasn't able to see her

God Does Not Necessarily Have to Exist In Descartes’ Meditations, he makes the strong claim that God must exist. I will first explain what Descartes’s argument for God’s existence is, and then I will attempt to support the argument that God does not need to necessarily exist through objections and replies. Premise 1: “We have an idea of God as an infinite and perfect being.” First, Descartes believes that there are properties that are inherently perfect. For example, being good is a perfection

just an empty void but there is so much to figure out. Then there is a principle of sufficient reason is the answer to a general sort of question for any existing thing. The explanation of everything’s existence or perhaps if it even exists at all. That then requires a necessary or self-existence being. That being that is identical to God. The higher being is deducted or inferred from the facts of proving that God is real in 5 ways by, concerning

The Kalam Cosmological argument is considered one of the most powerful argument for Gods existence. The syllogism goes like this, Whatever begins to exist has a cause; The universe began to exist; Therefore: The universe has a cause. Being able to give a reason to why one believes something should be the foundation of one's belief. "The universe either had a beginning or it is eternal, there is no middle ground in the Kalam Cosmological argument" (Vitale 103). Many will try and take premise one of

of Evil,” Michael Murray and Sean Greenberg discuss the idea of God being the one gives evils existence, that god himself created evil. In their article, they explain the three features to God’s “authorship” about the world. The creative cause, the conserving cause, and the concurrent cause. The three features explain how God created everything in existence, how God maintains everything in existence, and how everything that exists needs “direct divine

Avicenna created a doctrine that discussed the real distinction between essence and existence. Avicenna’s concludes that existence is accidental to essence and he believed that essence was a priority over esse. In Avicenna’s reasoning essence exists in two different ways of being. First, essence can exist in reality as a concrete, singular instance. For example, a dog can exist in reality through the essence of Lassie the dog. Second, essence can exist through the mind as a universal. For example

External Existence Does the external world exist? If so, how do we know (i) that it exists and (ii) what it is like? The ongoing debate on whether the external world exist or not continues throughout philosophy. According to philosopher Rene Descartes, he introduces the idea that an external world does exist and explains how using Meditations of Philosophy. Descartes starts off by using Meditations one and two as foundations to start of his argument. Descartes uses Meditations Six to prove that