Essays on Metaphysics Page 4

Tillich, Dynamics of FaithThrough his 1957 thought provoking Dynamics of Faith text on religious theory, American author Paul Tillich explores deep religious issues. To be precise, the author explores the relationship between the dynamics of character and faith besides describing faith as emanating from personality. Further, the book analyses the clash between doubt and faith….

Free will is something that has been debated through generations of philosophers. We have opinions of philosophers that range from believing that free will is free in nature and cannot be constrained, to free will being something that is pre-determined. With the presence of free will, we are in control of our lives and we…

Friedrich Nietzsche had his own ideas of right and wrong because he believed that the belief in God is incorrect. Therefore, he proposed what should be considered right and wrong. He suggested disregarding God to the point of assuming that God is dead, which would center the ideas of right and wrong around himself or…

In this essay, I will argue in support of Zagzebski’s assertion that luck is involved in knowledge, and due to this, the “the justified true belief formula” raises flaws and limitations to the reality of what knowledge is or can be due to its constricting values and requirements. This issue is philosophically significant because the…

The Ontological Argument was, and still is, a hot-topic for debate among philosophers; many famous philosophers have published criticisms of the theory including Immanuel Kant and St. Thomas Aquinas. This obviously raises questions regarding whether or not this argument works. While there is no clear-cut answer to these questions, I personally believe that the negatives…

Religions – Christianity & Buddhism Christianity and Buddhism have contrasting views on the nature of divine power. Christianity is classified as a transcendent religion, acknowledging a divine power that exists beyond human realms. Adherents worship one god who transcends the human world but provides guidance to humanity. In contrast, Buddhism is considered an immanent religion,…

In his 1968 article, On Being an Atheist, H. J. McCloskey attempts to refute the arguments of God’s existence and explain how “atheism is a much more comfortable belief than theism. ” (McCloskey 1968) He first attempts to discredit the Cosmological and Teleological arguments for God’s existence, then he turns to the existence of evil…

Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally. Being TABLE to see both sides of an issue. You have to be TABLE to understand the logical connections between ideas, identify, construct, and evaluate arguments, detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning, solve problems systematically, identify relevance and importance of ideas, and to reflect…

“Freedom” has traditionally been characterized in terms of rigid constraints forced by the demands of propositional truth. But according to Segundo, a better understanding would describe freedom as “precisely the capacity to absolutize what nature and history always present to us as somewhat relative.”(Segundo, Liberation of Theology, p. 176) That is, the proper conception of…

Cervo, Nathan A. “Yeats’ ‘Among School Children.” Explicator Fall (2001): p 30-31. This piece discusses arguably one of the more interesting works of Yeats entitled “among School Children”.  The discussion revolves around how W.B Yeats deconstructs the value of the things that are taught by kindly nuns to the children under their supposed care.  It…