Deceiving God: " And yet firmly rooted in my mind is the long standing opinion that there is an omnipotent God who made me the kind of creature that I am. ... I can know that God exists, I cannot know that "God." ... Primary and Secondary Qualities: Locke defines primary qualities as things actually in the world such as size, shape and motion that we perceive in the objects. ... In actual objects there is only size, shape and motion that causes in us the sensation of such things as color, taste and smell. ... He says that antecedent skepticism can get further by taking small steps to somet...

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In discussing the origins of this world, he designates the Demiurge, or his equivalent of the contemporary God as the creator of the universe. ... With the birth of "the most god-fearing of living creatures," Plato asserts that the Demiurge declared "the better sort of human nature should there-after be called "man... We see straight through to what we seek; whence each thing is created and in what manner made, without god's help." ... Man could have burst from ocean, from dry land the bearers of scales, and from thin air the birds; Thus everything cannot spring from anything, for thing...

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They worshipped the major divinities such as the Sun-God and the Water God but also local Gods and home Gods as well. ... There it taught its pupils to deny the reality of change on the ground that things either exist or do not exist. ... Or in short, it was the beginnings of trying to understand the physical reality and how things work, science. Earlier in history, man did not understand many things around him as well as he was not able to control many of the things around him, so he had it that the gods controlled it and be it. With the advancement of civilization, there was no need anymore ...

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This destination does its part however large or small, to leave one more thing explained. ... If we can someday answer our own questions then who needs GOD? ... Seeing how Sagan's denial of the existence of GOD leads him to believe that not all things are knowable, and Hawking's consideration of GOD leads him to believe that there is a font of answers that can be known, makes me wonder. ... Perhaps science believes in GOD but doesn't know it yet. ... Creation, nature, things we spoke at length about. ...

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Firstly, men and all living things have a natural purpose to assert life, second, suicide causes great social harm and finally suicide is like stealing from God, since human life is actually owned by God, not by people who are only trustees of it. ... Therefore, Suicide does not violate God's plan. ... Another potential criticism is that suicide interferes with the natural order of things, which have been ordained by God. Though when looked at again, this criticism fails because we as humans interfere with the natural order of things all the time? ... Hume argues that there is no...

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First off, we only comprehend of our preconception about God and man. ... God understands everything that we could ever dream of in the world we have a limited amount of knowledge. ... The Great Chain of Being is an idea man created yet an idea that God placed in our minds. ... "(Lines 9-10) Pope wants his readers to understand the reason they have been granted, to investigate and explain the things that they have been told to avoid. ... Epistle, one of Pope's "Essay on Man," which voices its ideas on the subject, is simply just one of the small writings of literature durin...

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He says that it is also thought by others that he is guilty of impiety and not recognising the gods recognised by the state and, to make things even worse, teaching others about his views and urging them to follow him. ... The philosopher also shows his piety by saying "I will obey my god rather than you" (29d, page 43, Defence of Socrates, Penguin edition, Plato) and claiming that he is leading such a life because he believes that it is his orders from his god to do so. ... He insists that he is only doing things for the benefit of others and that he believes a life which is good and just,...

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Substance is what things are made of and essence is what things actually are. ... His purpose for living ideas led him to ideas about the soul, God and what causes change. ... The main cause of all things is God, and he is the ultimate form. He believed that God is the great philosopher and is out there away from Earth and humans. ... Personal pleasure is a very small part of the big picture of happiness. ...

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The philosophes did not accept the scientific revolutionary notion that the laws of Nature express the will of God. ... God may very likely not exist, there is in truth no need for Him. Lucretius demonstrated that all things and beings are but the combining, breakup, and recombining of atoms. ... Philosophes could displace God with Reason. ... The great manifesto of the philosophe movement was no small document; by the late 1740's, everyone understood that the sum total and the entire spirit of the movement was contained in the Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot. ...

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This may be in place because the God is a" parent" in many ways. ... On a smaller scale, killing to obtain personal satisfaction or justice is punishable by laws. ... This particular passage puts more emphasis on an active and angry god, and also one who rewards the devout. ... For things which he has no logical answer for, he categorizes as hypothetical, or yet to be determined. ... She says we are generally thought to have a "rosy view" of things. ...

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The fundamental capacity to understand the world outside the world of the individual and his or her internal world includes the ability to interpret, characterize, and associate what things seem to be singular, or at least, singular groups of things. ... For Plato, the physical things of the world must have bodily form. ... And, for Pieper, God's role in the life of every individual and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and love are the ways by which human beings understood truth. ... Henry David Thoreau had gone to Walden Pond, a small body of water outside...

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He also challenged people to the fact that God is dead and that we should be relying on ourselves to come up with explanation for natural things. ... At his death from a feverish illness he was buried in Vienna with a small ceremony and an unmarked grave. ... He claimed that God can be characterized as logic and comprehensible to the idea that we justify the outcome of our lives and the mistakes that people in the past have made that he pointed out from history. ... Carl Schurz Carl Schurz was born on March 2, 1869, in a small town called Liblar, on the Rhine River. ...

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