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This unit is about exploring philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God.

In what is to follow I will examine those strands of Craig's philosophical argument for the view that the universe began to exist which seem to be the strongest.

Hartshorne offers a closely reasoned philosophical argument for a doctrine of God based, not on the classical metaphysical categories of traditional theology, but on process philosophy that allows some non-absolute aspects of God.

Not exact matches

I believe that the arguments for or against transfer payments are largely moral and philosophical.

But if you are looking for consilience, in which multiple lines of independent evidence converge on the same target, then Schwartz's argument is a good one to have in your arsenal, for it fits nicely with biological arguments for intelligent design (cf. Michael Behe's Darwin's Black Box), recent philosophical work on mental causation (cf. Robert Koons» Realism Regained), cosmological fine - tuning (cf. John Barrow and Frank Tipler's The Anthropic Cosmological Principle), and consciousness studies (cf. Dean Radin's The Conscious Universe).

The claim is not saved in this way, for the claim to have such an intuition is not the alleged intuition itself, and only that claim is what in fact and in principle enters the realm of philosophical theory and argument.

Specifically, only a rather sophisticated philosophical argument could offer a reasonable basis for taking temporal order and structure to be essential to experience as such and therefore to divine experience as well as to our own.

It's especially easy in this exact discussion; you have to be very careful about advocating tolerance, or philosophical openness, because its all too easy for that argument to becomea self - defeating intolerance of intolerance.

The Bishop rightly alerts the listeners to the obvious self - refuting nature of scientism; he emphasises that truth can surely be found in non-scientific forms such as poetry and literature; and then finally, he offers the building blocks for a philosophical argument that the intelligibility of the universe, and thereby the possibility of any science, in some way demonstrates a thinking mind behind the universe.

I stated my position on many of the philosophical problems to which my teachers had introduced me, for instance the question of internal and external relations; and I gave arguments for the positions.

Our task is to work hard, master the arguments (scientific, ethical, philosophical, social), understand the history of how we arrived here, defy the temptation to give up through boredom, build a coherent movement of defiance, and thereby prepare if not ourselves, then at least the next generation, for the moment when the revolution collapses under the weight of its own delusions and contradictions.

But a compelling philosophical argument can be made for the view that gay is not good, which means that it should be considered a disease in the same way as all the other sexual disorders in the DSM.

However, logic and philosophical arguments can be made for or against God's existence.

For critical discussions of Ogden's argument and the entire book, see Langdon B. Gilkey, «A Theology in Process,» Interpretation, XXI, 4 (October 1967), 447 - 459; Ray L. Hart, «Schubert Ogden on the Reality of God,» Religion In Life, XXXVI, 4 (Winter 1967), 506 - 515; Antony Flew, «Reflections on «The Reality of God»,» The Journal of Religion, 48, 2 (April 1968), 150 - 161: and Robert C. Neville, «Neoclassical Metaphysics and Christianity: A Critical Study of Ogden's Reality of God,» International Philosophical Quarterly, IX, 4 (December 1969), 605 - 624.

And most of Man's Vision of God, The Divine Relativity, 33 and the editorial contributions to Philosophers Speak of God34 is a careful and extensive argument for the philosophical superiority and rational elegance of the «dipolar» conception of God in which the abstract, absolute side of God is balanced by a concrete, relative side.

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Arguments in philosophical theology, analogous to arguments in history, science, law, or mathematics, can be mutually reinforcing, the weaknesses of some being compensated for by the strength oArguments in philosophical theology, analogous to arguments in history, science, law, or mathematics, can be mutually reinforcing, the weaknesses of some being compensated for by the strength oarguments in history, science, law, or mathematics, can be mutually reinforcing, the weaknesses of some being compensated for by the strength of others.

It was this naive positivism that Kaplan accepted, rather than, for example, the much more sophisticated views of his philosophical mentor John Dewey, as the basis of his argument for religious naturalism.

But if philosophical inquiry thus discovers contingent aspects in God's full actuality, it also discovers the intrinsic limits of its own inquiry into the mystery of God, for no amount of ingenious argument can deduce the concrete, historical character of that which happens to be, but which could have been otherwise.

We are urged to believe various doctrines concerning the incarnation, the atonement, and the resurrection of Christ for which philosophical evidence or argument is quite inadequate, on the grounds that in these religious matters human knowledge can never suffice.

Fortunately, these philosophical arguments play out in a pretty solid cop drama, executing well on the high octane car chases, shootouts and action sequences that keep the public coming back to cop movies for decades.

But early on, Dr. Plantinga defended a variety of arguments for the existence of God, marking the beginning of his efforts to put theistic belief back on the philosophical agenda.

«It seems to me that there is a persuasive case for believing that the doctrine of Humanae Vitae, regardless of the pastoral difficulty it causes, regardless of the philosophical and theological arguments thrown against it, regardless of the historical conditioning of its neo-scholastic framework, has been, and is being taught infallibly, that is, irreversibly and without error, by the Church's ordinary universal magisterium.»

That is, until Origen, the Cappadocians, and Augustine came along, all of whom recognized the uniqueness of Christian claims and the need for complementary philosophical arguments.

Though it is entirely legitimate for a scientist, or anyone else, to present philosophical or theological arguments against naturalistic evolution, it can not properly be claimed that such arguments are themselves scientific ones.

The war was promoted as a «just war» — the argument that when a war meets certain philosophical or religious purposes, for the greater good or rescue of people from evil, that it is considered «just» in the eyes of God and his people, an inescapable path for doing good through evil means.

In a lifetime which spans the best part of a century, he has been a prolific writer on topics ranging from neoclassical theism, the ontological argument for the existence of God, and philosophical psychology, to aesthetics, pacifism, and ornithology.

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See also Roderick Chisholm's splendid and much more fully developed argument for the same conclusion in «The Defeat of Good and Evil,» Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, (1968 - 69), 21 - 38.

Polkinghorne's discussion of the resurrection focuses, in contrast, on general philosophical arguments to the effect that «in order to confirm... the claim that the integrity of personal experience itself, based as it is in the significance and value of individual men and women and the ultimate and total intelligibility of the universe, requires that there be an eternal ground of hope who is the giver and preserver of human individuality and the eternally faithful Carer for creation.»

«Philosophical argument... has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith which is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that the gospel of Jesus Christ must be Divine Reality.

He feels that there are no compelling philosophical arguments which would lead one to move on to, or on the other hand to reject, the conception of subjective, or as he calls it «personal», immortality for men.

Consequently, the Church needs to make philosophical arguments in the public square, ones that show that the world is inherently intelligible (and that our minds are naturally made for objective truth).

If I am not a Hauerwasian, I am even less a process - relational thinker; hence I am ill - equipped to judge the merits of these proposals on the basis of their coherence with certain basic tenets of process - relational thought — which seems to be the main basis upon which Muray wishes them to be judged since his paper is otherwise fairly thin on more general philosophical or Christian theological arguments for the views he puts forward.

Criticisms of the use of mass media for religious communication center on two main arguments, the first based on philosophical and theological grounds, and the second based on the structural implications of the television industry itself.

And since Stapp has provided no further arguments for the meaningfulness of the joint class A, B, C, and D or for the propriety of treating the four equations relating the four sets of spin - value products as simultaneous equations, one can only conclude that both of these matters stand in need of considerable clarification and that any philosophical claims which depend upon the conclusion reached in Stapp's proof are in jeopardy.

As more and more secular intellectuals became aware that they could not offer a philosophical defense of the liberalism that they cherished, an opening was created for substantively different arguments.

In short, the ontological argument can be made to stand as a touchstone for philosophical positions; what does the verdict of a given philosophy on the argument tell us about the assumptions and the viability of that philosophy itself?

Hence, the arguments for the existence of a personal God developed in two recent books by Personalist philosophers will be used as illustrating the kind of philosophical thinking that can support DeWolf's position.

They will lead the way with clear, positive, and rationally persuasive arguments making the philosophical case for a principled conservative polity ¯ and social issues will play a central role.

2nd: It's a mathematical theorem pertaining to philosophical mathematics, not some theological argument for god.

Still, if Ohtani is a good pitcher, and Ohtani's bat actually is an asset for the Angels when he's in the lineup, then oh man, this dude is going to create arguments about the Most Valuable Player award that I'm actually going to be invested in, because they're going to be philosophical and annoying as hell.

Therefore, conceptually, if two people already - as universally supported - don't necessarily have the same voting weight (you can have a vote taken away from you for presumably doing wrong to society), what is the moral / philosophical argument against having select people being given additional votes for presumably doing more than average for society?

Dr Swift argued that, though there is no philosophical justification for valuing those closest to us more highly than others, in the case of the family there is an argument for a limited partiality on the basis of the goods that can only be provided by the familial environment.

Finally, for those who have drudged up the old argument that nothing can be known for sure, something for you to consider is that if nothing can be known, if you wish to take the philosophical stance of the ultimate skeptic, then you have no business engaging in any persuasive arguing.

It treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to «solve» existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.

Gray's sky - high ambitions, however admirable, preclude any sense of nuance or ambiguity, a problem shared by Cahill's film, which treats its characters as placeholders for philosophical arguments and spends the majority of its running time trying to «solve» existential mysteries without adequately exploring them.

As Joe brings events closer to the point where Seligman found her, von Trier's script gives Joe long, philosophical speeches while Seligman serves as the vehicle for convenient straw man arguments von Trier is eager for Joe to knock down.

Today, I want to set aside for the moment philosophical arguments about the federal role, and talk about the design problems of NCLB, and why it's essential that any vision for reauth steer clear of repeating those.