I will use the example of a hospital patient with cancer who believes in God and believes that there is a place after death, once you know that there is an end coming you are more likely to be prepared to go without any hesitation or question as to why it's your time or if God is spiting you for something that you did wrong. ... The philosophers Plato and Aristotle refer to God as "god", meaning he is not the Supreme Being rather just normal Greek gods. Aristotle believed that god was the prime mover, and basically the cause of all things in motion, so still not having a strong ...

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If I had something to defend myself, like a gun, I would use it to the best of my ability to protect myself from any harm. ... There are four reasons why we should behave justly. 1) To avoid punishment. ... Aristotle believes that the good life can only be lived as a public life. Plato emphasis on empirical observations is that knowledge is good, and Aristotle's emphasis is you can learn about ethics and human behavior by observing human behavior. The philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and St. ...

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When I say that the 1) author of The Apology was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, it is identical to saying that the 2) author of The Republic was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. ... At Euthyphro 11d, Euthyphro states that he believes the pious is loved by the gods because it is inherently pious and for no other reason. ... Socrates could have argued that the stories of the gods are up to interpretation and there is no way Euthyphro can actually use the stories as justification for knowing what piety is because everyone arrives at a different conclusion based...

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For my first basis for the existence of God I will use the a posteriori, ontological arguments. ... In Descartes "the Argument from Perfection" he reasons that if existence is one of the perfections and God has all the perfections, then God must exist. ... The existence of motion to the existence of a first mover as the cause of movement, was argued by Aristotle. ... The reason for this was that nothing caused God to move yet God was responsible for the motion of all other things. ...

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Theists have used this well known argument(teleological) for thousands of years as strong evidence for the existence of God. ... Ignorance to what caused the first movement should not be a reason to praise the unknown and label this first cause as God. ... Great minds like Socrates, Plato, Paley, Aristotle, Augustine, Anselm, Descartes have made arguments for the existence of God. ...

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This word was used by the ancient Greeks to describe someone who had been initiated into one of these cults and therefore knew the secrets which no outsider would ever have the privilege of knowing. ... These had an obvious appeal to many women for these reasons. ... Philosophy became important and of great interest around the Fourth and Fifth Centuries B.C.E. with such famous philosophers as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the list goes on and on from there. ...

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