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Weekly 200

By land8135 | May 2, 2012

During our last class we learned about death and its universalism. We learned of two different types of universalism. These two different types are naïve universalism and sophisticated universalism. The basic idea of naïve universalism is that all people upon death are transformed by god and in a way joined up with him. This is [...]

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Research Post

By land8135 | April 25, 2012

My research post is about luck and the role it plays on humanity. My paper is based off the article Felix Culpa: Luck in Ethics and Epistemology by Guy Axtell. For my paper I began by talking about the history of luck. I addressed Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics and how the ancient stoics criticized his theories. [...]

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Weekly 200

By land8135 | April 25, 2012

Last class we learned about the philosophical view of hell. However in order to analyze the idea of what hell is and if it exists we decided to exclude the super natural elements such as the devil. Doing this helped us to analyze and break the argument of hell down into four different categories. These [...]

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The problem of evil

By land8135 | April 12, 2012

For my second graded post I will write about the problem of evil. The argument states that if there is a triple o being then he would have the power, knowledge, and desire to stop evil. The argument continues by stating, if there’s a being with the power, knowledge, and the desire to stop evil [...]

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The problem of Evil

By land8135 | April 5, 2012

The problem of evil presents a very interesting argument. One of the arguments being, if there is a triple o being, then there is a being with power, knowledge, and desire to prevent evil. It then continues to talk about how if a being is triple o then evil should not exist because any triple [...]

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First Graded Post

By land8135 | March 23, 2012

For my first graded post I will be discussing an argument for the existence of god. More specifically I will be discussing Leibniz’s Modal Version of the teleological argument.
Leibniz’s modal version is a little different from most teleological arguments in that it does not contain an infinity assumption. Instead of bringing up an infinity assumption [...]

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Ontological loop holes

By land8135 | March 2, 2012

Although Amselm’s version of his ontological argument seems to make good sence when understood it has a few flaws. When one first examines the argument in seems very secure. It is very hard to find a weak link in the steps of the argument. However one might realize that in order for this argument to [...]

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Ontological Argument

By land8135 | February 24, 2012

When I first read Alvin Plantinga’s ontological argument it appeared very confusing and complicated to me. In fact I found myself constantly retracing my steps back to what I had already read. But after I was able to understand the idea behind the theory i realized that it was a very stable argument. The argument [...]

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Philosophy feb 17

By land8135 | February 17, 2012

One of the arguments this reading brings up is the argument of efficient cause. This name was given to it by the philosopher Aquinas. The idea is that something that exists always has a maker. However the maker would then have maker of that maker and [...]

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Evolution vs an Intelligent being

By land8135 | February 9, 2012

I find it incredibly fascinating how many philosophers take mostly universal and epic ideas such as the existence of god, or more commonly know to philosophers as an intelligent designer, and break that idea down into pieces and analyze the details to debate its existence. One of the ways philosophers do this is by making [...]

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Blog 1

By land8135 | February 3, 2012

As a young child I was told to believe in god. Every Saturday my family would attend our temple along with a large portion of other conservative Jews. Along with that every Sunday I would attend a Jewish day school and learn things like the prayers and culture of my Jewish heritage. At the age [...]

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Omniscience

By land8135 | February 3, 2012

As a young child I was told to believe in god. Every Saturday my family would attend our temple along with a large portion of other conservative Jews. Along with that every Sunday I would attend a Jewish day school and learn things like the prayers and culture of my Jewish heritage. At the age [...]

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