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Here are some guidelines for your paper:
In your paper, clearly state your thesis and provide well-reasoned arguments to support it. Your paper should be written in coherent paragraphs, including introduction and conclusion. Your paper should be 4 or 5 pages (double-spaced.)
TOPICS (choose one):
1. Make a case for or against the belief in God. Be sure to address the opposing arguments.
2. Give accounts of rationalism and empiricism. If you favor one over the other, explain your viewpoint. If you do not favor one over the other, explain the aspects of each, which you are unable to surrender.
3. Compare and contrast the view, which sees the self primarily as individual (atomic) with the view that sees the self primarily as social. What are the implications of these views? If you favor one over the other, why?
4. Summarize the primary solutions to the mind/body problem. Which theory do you find to be most compelling? If there is another theory that you find more compelling, explain it.
4. Explain the determinism and free will positions. Which view do you find most compelling, and why?
5. Why should you behave morally towards others? You might wish to consider this question in light of some or all of the moral theories we have considered (deontology, consequentialism, virtue, care.)
6. If there is some other issue of philosophy that you find interesting, please feel free to propose your own paper topic.
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Running Head: PHILOSOPHY ON GOD’S EXISTENCE
Philosophy On God’s Existence
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1. Make a case for or against the belief in God. Be sure to address the opposing arguments.
God's presence has been a continuously debated discussion presumably for a long period
of time. It has been thought about by numerous researchers. Taking it into consideration from a
philosopher's perspective, it is obvious that most contentions are derived from two unique
disciplines which include the ontology and the epistemology (Dawkins, 2016). Knowledge of
theory is identified with epistemology while ontology focuses on the state of nature in which
individuals work from. Until found to be wrong, David Hume is a philosopher who has never
trusted that God exists. He utilizes many observations to reprimand the five arguments that Thomas
Aquinas has used to demonstrate that there is a being called god in the universe (Te Velde, 2017).
There is additionally another scholar called Immanuel Kant who does not acknowledge the
presence of God and discredits the ontological contention given by Aquinas. Considering Aquinas'
perspective, obviously, God exists. His five contentions about the presence of God are the one in
which he argues that nothing results from itself, the teleological one, the cosmological argument,
qualities of objects in the world, and the unmoved mover (Leibniz, 2016).
The concept of evil is the primary argument that gives a record that there is no evidence
that God exists. It is expressed from the following three contentions that the presence of God
cannot be true. The first expresses that evil is present but then God can keep it from happening.
The second contention that backs the non-existence of God is taken from the view that he is not
all loving in light of the fact that he has left evil to be present the nature of individuals. The third
explanation that argues out the inexistence of God is that he is not ever-present because he cannot
counteract evil, yet he has the enthusiasm of doing as such (Dawkins, 2016). This denial of God's
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presence is a false one since when taking a gander at the argument by Aquinas, it demonstrates
that evil comes to inconvenience nature (Te Velde, 2017).
This implies evil comes to be because of a specific community lacking a specific valuable
good that has a place in their current race henceforth permitted by nature. He keeps on arguing that
evil is something unreal and rational and consequently cannot be contrasted with what God can
have the capacity to do. In this way, it does not originate from a positive source. The connections
of things with each other or people with one other are what may make evil exist which thusly
causes inconveniences among themselves. The absence of evil in the universe would make life run
badly (Te Velde, 2017). No judgments would be passed against somebody if no wrong committed.
The second contention is given by David Hume who is against the views of Aquinas. He
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