6. Research the essential elements of Greek religion. How did the Greeks conceptualize the gods, and people’s relationship with them? What were the primary methods of worship and ritual? 7.
I can properly attribute its presence to chance, meaning that the operation of such natural forces as wind, rain, heat, frost and volcanic action. However, if I see a watch lying on the ground, I cannot reasonably account for it in similar way. A watch consists of a complex arrangement of wheels, log, axles, springs and balances, all operating accurately together to provide a regular measurement of the lapse of time. Paley’s adds certain comments that are important for his analogy between the watch and the world. First, it would not weaken our inference, if you had never seen a watch before (as we have never seen a world other than this one) and did not know from direct observation that watches are products of human intelligence, second, it would not invalidate our inference from the watch to the watchmaker if we found that the mechanism did not always work perfectly (as may appear to be the case with the mechanism of the world).
For example, planets could not have put themselves into orbit, yet they are in perfect order and placement so therefore there must be a designer, an intelligent being, that did so. This argument suggests that everything has been designed to have a purpose, even if it is unaware of this itself. Aquinas believed that this designer is God. One of the earliest forms of the teleological argument was formed by Aristotle in the 4th century BC. Aquinas’ design argument was influenced by Aristotle’s ideas presented in his work Metaphysics.
The Cosmological argument What are the significant features of the cosmological argument for the existence of God? (21) The cosmological argument is a classical theistic argument for the existence of God. It is one of the world’s oldest arguments. Many different philosophers have taken it upon themselves to try and solve the cosmological argument, so there are many different ideas of what God is, or if there is even a God at all. St. Thomas Aquinas is probably one of the most well-known philosophers of the cosmological argument as he came up with five steps that explained why there must be a “creator” and did not just state that there was one.
One of the many classical philosophical and theological arguments regarding the existence and legitimacy of a “God,” as described by the Christian Bible, is predestination versus free will. In it, the concepts of whether a God who supposedly gives all humans free will can actually bestow such, considering the powers that entail being a “omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient.” Two stories that contribute to the conversation of predestination versus free will are Oedipus Rex and the Creation Story of the Book of Genesis of the Christian Bible. In examining these two stories, according to the rules set by their gods, who have dominion over them as their creators, Oedipus seems to be predestined while Adam and Eve have free will. Because of this analysis, in our own world, there are three possibilities as to what the answer to whether predestination or free will exists is: we live in a world with an non-deistic god who simply controls all events and thus free will does not exist but predestination does similar to the story of Oedipus; we live in a world with a god who watches all events but allows for both predestination and free will like the Genesis story; or we live in a world without a god where free will exists and predestination does not. Here, the first two will be examined as they are pertinent to the two stories discussed in class.
This representations was first made by the Greeks, and like many other ideas, was then adopted and recreated by the Romans , that’s why it is called as a Roman copy of a Greek sculpture. Dimensions are somewhat larger than life-size (the statue's original height was 1.90 m). The statue is well designed which can be inferred from her hairs. I think the idea of a female nude sculpture was very much a shocking occurrence to me, and both the characters that is the dolphin and the child are some kind of representatives in the sculpture. The boy on the dolphin is Eros, that’s the reason the sculpture is named as Aphrodite with Eros on a Dolphin at her side.
Running Head: Preservation and Transmission of Greek Philosophy in the Middle Ages Preservation and Transmission of Greek Philosophy In the Middle Ages Antilkumar Gandhi Professor Fleming Religion and Philosophy Introduction Greek philosophy focused on the role of reason and inquiry in the study of the natural world. Many philosophers today concede that Greek philosophy has shaped all of Western thought since its inception. As Alfred Whitehead once noted, with some exaggeration, "Western philosophy is just a series of footnotes to Plato," (Brickman, 1961). Clear and unbroken lines of influence lead from Ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophers, to medieval Muslim philosophers, and to the European Renaissance and Enlightenment. Early Greek philosophy, in turn, was influenced by the older wisdom literature and myths of the Near East.
Christianity and Platonism by Christopher Bunge Religion and philosophy both seek an explanation for the way things are. They attempt to answer the hard questions of humanity origin, purpose and eventual destination. Religion usually purposes a divine or supernatural reason for existence and wherein spiritual entities act as guiding forces throughout humanities history. Religion is as old as human kind is with evidence of ritualistic behavior being observed as early as some 50,000BCE. Philosophy as we understand it on the other hand was invented by the Greeks in the 6th century BCE.
1. Introduction When it comes to the world of philosophy, one knows to look at the foundations set about by the philosophers of Ancient Greece. It was their work and their theories that has significantly shaped and influenced what we today know as Western philosophy. This essay will focus on one particular branch of philosophy, namely epistemology i.e. the theory of knowledge, and attempt to discuss the development of different theories of philosophers ranging from pre-Socratic to post-Aristotelian Ancient Greece.
In geometry the famous Greek mathematician Euclid has made a model of reasoning, with its three key elements: axioms, deductive reasoning and theorems. When trying to explain and prove mathematical hypotheses one uses logic and deduction, by using “self-evident truths which provides firm foundations for mathematical knowledge”. The axioms describe what we already are familiar with, and the