How God Does or Doesn't Exist from Descartes and Lockes' Point of View Position or Issue No.1. Ever since the beginning of time, man has raised the same questions over and over again; is there a higher being than us? Is there something immense out there? Could there even be a way f...

My Philosophy of Life Over the past five months of learning "philosophy," by its definition, is extremely vague and confusing. It can be related to anything to do with thought, perception, and even basic human existence. However, over the homework, projects and assignments I have do...

Postmodernism emerged in the last century to confront many conventions of the modernist era. Authors such as Fowles, Delillo, Pynchon, Borges and Stoppard play on the convictions of audiences and take from them what society holds most dear. In Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dea...

The existence of God has been a question since the idea of God was conceived Descartes tries to prove God's existence, and to show that there is without a doubt something external to ones own existence. He is looking for a definite certainty, a foundation for which he can base all of his beliefs ...

I grew up in a time and place where faith existed but was never questioned. After all, when you're a kid, adults tell you that Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and God are all real. And that believing in them would get you gifts, baskets of candy, money, and someone who could help you...

Can You Show That We Don't Know Anything? Most people go through life without ever questioning the idea of knowledge. We all make statements every day such as 'I know X', and 'We all have knowledge of Y', yet when we truly examine what it means to 'know' some...

1.In the sixth chapter of his work "Meditations" Descartes makes a distinction between the mind and the body as two things which are fundamentally different, referring to the body, he calls it "res estensa", a finite, limited thing which does not have the capacity to think. The m...

Descartes meditations are based on the epistemological theory of rationalism: that is if someone truly knows something then they could not possibly be mistaken. He provides solid arguments for what his meditations stand for, and how he obtained a clear and distinct perception of "innate" ideas. In h...

God is the infinite and perfect spirit in whom all things have their source, support, and end. He is a person, which means He thinks, feels, and acts. He is spiritual in that His essence is spirit, not material. Holy bible writers speak of God's hands, eyes, etc., to communicate His ability and ...

Proof Of The Exsistence of God Either God exists or He doesn't. There is no middle ground. Any attempt to remain neutral in relation to God's existence is automatically synonymous with unbelief. It is far from a moot question, for if God does exist, then nothing else really matters; if He does not e...

Meditations is a discussion of metaphysics, or what is truly real. In these writings, he ultimately hopes to achieve absolute certainty about the nature of everything including God, the physical world, and himself. It is only with a clear and distinct knowledge of such things that he can then begin...

Alexander Pope's "An Essay On Man": The Paradoxical Nature Of Man As A Paradox In The Clash Of Philosophical Trends. The "Essay" consists of epistles, addressed to Lord Bolingbroke, and derived, to some extent, from some of Bolingbroke's own fragmentary Philosophical writi...

Contemporary atheism is a positive and new humanism trying to re-found and re-construct the entire human universe of thought and values. It shows the possible abuses of religion and points out all concepts of God are only imperfect means to see him. What they say about God couldn't possibly be. A...

The question of God's existence involves a long and controversial history. Defining the term "God" in and of itself is not an easy task because different people have their own concept of what God means to them. In this piece, I aim to show why belief in a God is a reasonable position to hold. ...

As any other usual day a marine explorer is out in the sea with his team to explore new things and make some discoveries for a research. Unfortunately, the explorer leaves too far in search of his subject and then mistakenly his team leaves him behind. Suddenly, the man realizes that his ship has le...

Plato gave the name of an entity, which we, mere mortals according to him couldn't possibly grasp in our lifetimes, as FORMS. The esoteric term was to label the realm of our universe, which we hardly thought to exist. This realm is the truth and nothing but the truth. It is the true reality of ...