A Study of the Ordinary Arguments for the Existence and Nature of God |
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absolute actually Anselm Anselm's argument apprehended Aquinas argued argument from causality argument from contingency Aristotle assertion basis beauty belief called the argument capable cause chemist Christian cosmic process creative Descartes desire for happiness Divine element emergence enquiry entity epistemology eternal evidence EXISTENCE AND NATURE existence of Deity experience explanation fact famous five proofs feel Gifford Lectures Hegel hominidae human mind Hume idea inferences intuition involve judgment of value Kant large number living logically matter mean mental monism monotheism moral argument moral consciousness moral obligation Natural Theology numinous object ontological argument philosophy physical Plato polytheism possess possible present principle probability purpose rationalist reality reason regard religion religious scholastic philosophy seems self-existent sense species stage suppose supreme survival synthetic teleological argument theism Theology theory of knowledge thought thought-forms to-day traditional arguments traditional proofs true truth ultimate universal consent UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE whole