Existence

Descartes provides proof that what exists depends on the existence of God. He begins by doubting everything, followed by affirming certainty in all things, including himself and God, and concludes by proving the intrinsic nature of existence and God. God exists in all things. Descartes employs the concept of doubt as the foundation for knowledge. Adhering to a step-by-step process of elimination, he questions the existence of pure existence itself. He applies the precision of mathematics to real

against God. Believing in God is more logical in the sense that there is much to gain and nothing to lose. Mathematically, there is proof of God’s existence. Kurt Godel revolutionized mathematics and the argument

Descartes’ develops the proof of God’s existence. Descartes’ uses first uses his idea of God as a perfect being and his principle to prove that God exists and that God is not a deceiver before following to come up with the General Rule. However, scholars believe that Descartes’ proof seems to run into a fundamental problem, which is that his proof acts in a circular motion, called the Cartesian Circle. In this paper, I will present Descartes’ proof of God’s existence, following that, I will explain how

The cosmological argument for the existence of God is based on causation and the world having a beginning. It holds that everything that exists has a cause and there must have been an initial cause. The argument attempts to prove the existence of God by making an inference from the world. It starts from the reality that things exist and then follows that there is a cause for the existence of these things. It acknowledges that something caused the universe to exist and some thing is currently keeping

world around us. As Hume's interlocutor Cleanthes put it, we seem to see “the image of mind reflected on us from innumerable objects” in nature. (Hume 1998). This paper will prove the existence of God using the teleological argument. There are various arguments that support teleology and the existence of God on different grounds. The arguments to follow examine these grounds, proving emphatically that God does exist. Teleology is the study of a thing’s purpose or design. This argument

SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade my audience to believe the probable existence of God. ATTENTION GETTER: A new Harris Poll finds that a strong majority (74%) of Americans believe in God. RELEVANCE: I believe God’s existence is relevant to all demographics of people, because “God” applies to all beliefs, races, cultures, etc. CREDIBILITY: Along with my extensive research on this, I am also a confirmed Roman Catholic, which may make me a bit biased but nonetheless I have been had plenty of resources

discuss the ontological proof of the existence of God. First, I will discuss what ontology is and how it connects to this proof about God. There are two kinds of proofs that are going to be talked about in this essay. The ontological proof was created by Anselm who made this argument that God does exist. To begin this discussion, ontology is a part of metaphysics and concerns itself with the nature of being. Ontology seeks to answer questions about existence, what’s real and what is not real. The

without definitive proof of it's existence. Within this essay I will be addressing the topic of the existence of God, I will examine proofs such as the Ontological Argument and Cosmological Argument. In doing so testing its advantages while also providing contradictory arguments as posed by philosophers such as Kant and Hume. The first ontological argument for the proof of Gods existence was posed by St.Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109 C.E), he reasons the existence of God from the idea of "a being

The very existence of God has always been a prevalent topic for philosophers for centuries. This common concept has thus brought about some very interesting theories and ideas revolving around it. Two very well-known individuals, as well as many others, in the philosophical world developed their own ideas of why the existence of God was logically sound. Descartes, author of the Third Meditation, proved the existence of God through the existence of man, claiming that man had to have derived from something

philosophers trying to explain the existence of God; the Cosmological Argument is one such theory. The Cosmological Argument has been changed and reviewed for years; however, the focus has always stayed the same. The universe is a prime example that there is a God. A simple Cosmological argument states that: Everything that exists has a cause of its existence. The universe exists. Therefore, The universe has a cause of its existence. If the universe has a cause of its existence, then that cause is God.