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18 Th Century Gods Existence
4,866 wordsHumes Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion ranks among the greatest writings in the history of Western philosophy. The work addresses the sensitive issue of the knowledge we have of God through reason alone, and, in the process, Hume presents arguments which undermine the classic proofs for Gods existence. The arguments in the Dialogues assume an important 18 th century distinction between natural religion and revealed religion. Natural religion involves knowledge of God drawn from nature, sole...
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Existence Of God Gods Existence
2,440 wordsNo one can think the opposite of that which is self evident But the opposite of the proposition God Exists can be thought therefore the proposition that God existence is self evident. (Thomas Aquinas) Some people may say that God is an omnipotent, omniscient being that the universe revolves around. In other words, God is all-powerful, all knowing, and runs the universe, but the mere claim, to prove Gods existence, seems to invite ridicule. The people who ridicule are not always right. They are t...
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5,990 wordsMaterialist Response To David Chalmers The Conscious Materialist Response To David Chalmers The Conscious Mind A MATERIALIST RESPONSE TO DAVID CHALMERS THE CONSCIOUS MIND Paul Raymond Stanford University In this paper I will examine and criticize the arguments David Chalmers gives for rejecting a materialistic account of consciousness in his book The Conscious Mind. I will draw upon arguments and intuitions from the three main schools of thought in the philosophical study of consciousness (a) fo...
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