1. existence of god
., (4) the Albigensians of Southern France and Spain in the early Middle Ages, (5) the Italian scholastic philosopher Thomas Aquinas in the 13th century A.D., (6) the Jansenists of France in the 17th century, and (7) the Puritans in England and its American colonies during the 16th and 17th centuries. ... In the 13th century A.D., Thomas Aquinas almost single handedly imported Dualism into mainstream Christianity. ... The Roman Christian church was eager to bring ever larger numbers into its confessionals, and Aquinas' treatises appeared to offer a nearly unlimited resource of sinners...
Natural law theorists such as Cicero and Saint Thomas Aquinas will argue that there is a common law that can be applied universally that never changes, and is everlasting in the world. ... As Thomas Hobbes is famously quoted for saying, "Life is lonely, poor, nasty, brutish and short." ... There is a modern law theorist by the name of Lon Fuller who does not follow in the same beliefs as Cicero and Saint Thomas Aquinas. ... In the beliefs of Saint Thomas Aquinas he would say that is does not excuse you, but you would be damned to hell for not believing in God. ...
Aristotle and Aquinas: Thomas Aquinas was born in 1225 CE, and was very interested in education in his youth. Aristotle was born in 384 BC, which was many years after Aquinas. ... Aristotle went to the Acadamy (Plato's school in which he was the Academy's most prominent student) and Aquinas went to the University of Naples. ... Aquinas was more of an evident believer in Christianity than Aristotle. Aquinas believed that humans have both spiritual and natural needs, and focused more on God and Christianity. ...
What if one had the ability to "freeze" time? This ability may not exist directly, but many philosophers believe that time is, though not quite frozen, stationary. Other philosophers believe the opposite is true - that time is cyclical, revolving, moving. Time is the subject of an amazing philosophi...
My paper will present the Cosmological Argument for God"s existence, and show that its underlying principle, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, fails to establish it as a sound argument for the existence of God. To accomplish this, I will, first, define the Cosmological Argument and the Principle ...
The Letter from Birmingham Jail discusses issues of segregation between blacks and whites during Martin Luther King Jr. reign as civil rights leader in the United States. Through out King's letter to the clergymen he discusses segregation but also speaks on other events that were taking place during...
My paper will present the Cosmological Argument for God"s existence, and show that its underlying principle, the Principle of Sufficient Reason, fails to establish it as a sound argument for the existence of God. To accomplish this, I will, first, define the Cosmological Argument and the Principle ...