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Brilliantly Illuminated Louis Xiv History
1,594 wordsVoltaire: A history that never moved By Boy Kampmark Why should history move? Consider it a frozen tableau, an unchanging picture. There are only emotions rather than causation. Even if there is historical causation, Voltaire (Francois Marie About) (1694 - 1778) wrote in his works History of Charles XII, History of Louis XIV and his Essai sur les Moeurs et l'Esprit des Nations against its usefulness. This is largely because Voltaire, through his desire to write a history freed from a chronology,...
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Voltaire A History That Never Moved
1,645 words... Voltaire does not labour the point of a progressive essence behind history, other than to realise that the age he lives in is a remarkable age that must have derived from progression. This is the seminal paradox. Yet his history remains a chronology, not a progression. By no means could one assert that there are no forces that move history in Voltaire's eyes. They might lie in masses, though he does not trust revolution since revolution done in the name of reason is often executed by those l...
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Mutually Exclusive Vice Versa
951 wordster> Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites Abstract People often confuse satisfaction or pleasure with meaning. It is one thing to ask "How" (what Science does), another to seek an answer to "Why" (a teleological quest in most cases) and still different to contemplate the "What for." For instance: people often do something because it gives them pleasure or satisfaction however this does not endow the act with meaning. Meaning...
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Final Cause Natural Phenomena
1,500 wordster>Sam Vaknin's Psychology, Philosophy, Economics and Foreign Affairs Web Sites The word "telos" in ancient Greek meant: "goal, target, mission, completion, perfection." The Greeks seem to have associated the attaining of a goal with perfection. Modern scientific thought is much less sanguine about teleology, the belief that causes are preceded by their effects. The idea is less zany than it sounds. It was Aristotle who postulated the existence of four types of ca...
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Parts Of The World Natural Processes
1,452 words... example is evolution. The etiological account of natural selection deals both with the genetic mechanisms of transfer involved and with the selection mechanisms. The latter bestow upon the organism with the feature to be explained a better chance of reproducing (than the one possessed by the featureless specimen). But in all this discussion, it would seem that a goal necessarily implies the existence of an intent aimed at achieving it. A lack of intent leaves only one course of action availa...
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The Existence Of God Approaches Criticisms
1,227 wordsThere are three major arguments that attempt to explain the existence of God. Firstly, it is important to establish a definition of God. According to philosophers God is an infinitely perfect being that upholds a divine unity of ultimate goodness and of ultimate power. God is referred to as Omniscient, Omnipotent and Eternal. God has unlimited knowledge and intelligence, so basically God is the ultimate model of perfectionism. Though all Philosophers agree with this definition of God, it does no...
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God Must Exist Existence Of God
1,022 wordsAquinas, Anselm, Paley and Kant all famous philosophers, have proven that god exists; yet people still question Gods existence. As Anselm said, We are like students who, unable to solve a mathematical problem, are given the answer to it and then discover they can reason out why that answer is correct. For thousands of years, philosophers have given evidence proving the existence of God. The evidence at hand should prevail but some philosophers beg to differ. In this paper I will try to go over a...
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Greater Can Be Conceived Idea Of God
1,457 wordsThroughout history there has been a concept of a greater being (s) that guided our lives. In the beginning the main idea was that of plurality and polytheism. In ancient Greece and Rome, there were various gods that were believed to control different aspects of life. At some point, people began to worship only one god, the god of their own tribe. This religious position of henotheism eventually shifted to monotheism, for many. With monotheism comes the idea that your god is not only the god of y...
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Philosophy Of Religion Concept Of God
994 wordsThe question of Gods existence has been debated through the history of man, with every philosopher from Socrates to Immanuel Kant weighing in on the debate. So great has this topic become that numerous proofs have been invented and utilized to prove or disprove Gods existence. Yet no answer still has been reached, leaving me to wonder if any answer at all is possible. So I will try in this paper to see if it is possible to philosophically prove Gods existence. Before I start the paper there are ...
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Existence Of God Teleological Argument
1,002 words... if the watch sometimes went astray or was seldom right. The purpose of the machine would still be evident, and that it is not relevant for the machine to be perfect to prove that it has a creator. He concludes the watch analogy with the assumption, that no intelligent person would assume that the pieces of the watch were just a random combination of nature. The next concept Paley addresses is the idea of the watch being able to reproduce itself. Just because it can do this does not eliminate...
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Big Bang Theory Existence Of God
2,257 words... us as odd would evoke the thought, 'How did that get here?' You might not have a clue how it came to be, but there would probably never be a moment when you thought there should be no explanation at all. Few times do we consider the possibility that perhaps it came about all by chance, or came from nothing. As Taylor points out, the nonexistence of anything never requires a reason; but existence of something, that always requires a reason. This basic idea that to every truth there is a cause...
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God Must Exist Existence Of God
1,119 wordsExistence of God Does God exist? Theology, cosmological, teleological and ontological arguments are all have ways to prove the existence of God. With all of these great arguments how can one deny that there is a God. There is a God and with these reasons I will prove that. There are two types of theology discussed in chapter nine of Kessler "Voices of Wisdom, " revealed and natural theology. Revealed theology comes from such sources as the Bible and according to St. Thomas Aquinas gives us the k...
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Thought And Action God Existence
1,170 wordsof God; therefore, God must intrinsically exist, inasmuch as he, too, is a product of His own creation. Descartes was one of many philosophers who fully supported this argument in support of God's existence, contending that the external world is the ruling force behind the presence of all beings. Descartes' assertions, as portrayed within the literary boundaries of Meditations on First Philosophy, were founded not in cosmological or ontological arguments but rather in teleological debate, inasmu...
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Immanuel Kant Des Nt
1,084 wordsEthics - P 1 -IP Wouldnt the world be s much easier if we all agreed n what was may and what was nt? Unfortunately, each person differs in their may beliefs and what ne may consider t be may, see else may nt. Having different penis des nt mean that ne particular person is right and the ther is want, but the law is a different story. Regardless what ur wn personal beliefs are, the law is the law and certain may standards have been set. Ethical formalism is considered t be a Dentlgical system beca...
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Clear And Distinct Ideas Existence Of God
1,437 wordsSpinoza And Descartes Spinoza enjoys a widespread reputation as the modern philosopher who makes the most thorough going and principled attack on teleology. Unlike Descartes who faint heartedly limits his attack on final causation to the question of its usefulness in physics, Spinoza boldly pushes further, or so the story goes, and denies the legitimacy of all teleological explanation, even with respect to God. Spinoza rejects final causation in physics and theology, as well as he rejects teleol...
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Taking Into Account Pleasure And Pain
1,786 wordsCritique Of Bentham's Quantitative Utilitarianism Essay, Research Critique Of Bentham's Quantitative Utilitarianism Over time, the actions of mankind have been the victim of two vague labels, right and wrong. The criteria for these labels are not clearly defined, but they still seem to be the standard by which the actions of man are judged. There are some people that abide by a de ontological view when it comes to judging the nature of actions; the de ontological view holds that it is a persons ...
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Greater Can Be Conceived Existence Of God
1,593 wordsIn my life on this planet I have come to question many things that many take on as blind faith. We all know that someday we will physically die, Yet, we continuously deny the forces working inside ourselves which want to search out the true outcome of what may or may not come after death. Its far easier for humanity to accept that they will go on to a safe haven and be forgiven for all, rather than to question the existence of a super omnipotent being. Fortunately, there are some of us who tend ...
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Existence Of God 18 Th Century
912 wordsThe Three Most Popular Arguments For The Existence Of God The Ontological Argument One of the most important attempts to demonstrate the existence of God is the ontological argument of Saint Anselm, an 11 th-century theologian. Anselm s argument maintains that God, defined as the greatest being that can be conceived, must exist, since a being that does not exist would by virtue of that fact lack an attribute that contributes to its greatness. Critics have questioned, however, whether existence a...
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God Existence Greater Can Be Conceived
1,599 wordsIn my life on this planet I have come to question many things that many take on as blind faith. We all know that someday we will? physically? die, Yet, we continuously deny the forces working inside ourselves which want to search out the true outcome of what may or may not come after death. It? s far easier for humanity to accept that they will go on to a safe haven and be forgiven for all, rather than to question the existence of a super omnipotent being. Fortunately, there are some of us who t...
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Existence Of God Teleological Argument
1,117 wordsGreek philosopher and educational reformer of the fifth century B. C. ; born at Athens, 469 B. C. ; died there, 399 B. C. After having received the usual Athenian education in music (which included literature), geometry, and gymnastics, he practised for a time the craft of sculptor, working, we are told, in his fathers workshop. Admonished, as he tells us, by a divine call, he gave up his occupation in order to devote himself to the moral and intellectual reform of his fellow citizens. He believ...
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