Descartes's Meditations : Meditation Six (III) : The Meditator learns how her body is organized, and discovers why her illnesses, like her errors, suggest that God is benevolent, and determines that she can proceed confidently in all the......
Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. — Soren Kierkegaard 86 No need to fix what God already put his paint brush on — J. Cole 268 The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome. He can be worshipped in the cathedr...
What the principle would rule out is the idea of degrees of existence such as is found in the Neoplatonists or Descartes. It also sounds a bit like the phrase in Hamlet, "To be, or not to be," ἔστιν ἢ οὐκ ἔστιν, which begins Hamlet's consideration whether to...
René Descartes said “I think, therefore I am”. Modern neurobiology says: “I feel, therefore I am.” Rituals strengthen the bonds of human communities. Hand-shaking and saying hello are rituals. Religions offer rituals. Cultures offer rituals. Why do some people not believe? Well, they ...
At this stage, the philosophical and technological prerequisites for creating AI were laid, such as Descartes’ mechanistic theory of animals, Pascal’s and Leibniz’s calculating machines, Turing machine, Church-Turing theorem, and others.
Do you have any reasons to believe in the afterlife (assuming a loving God) even if one does not believe in the resurrection of Jesus? If you could convince me of the resurrection of Jesus as well I would appreciate the effort. I’d definitely read the message and try to learn something...
there is reason to believe that Descartes may never have been committed to the position that his conservation law holds universally and may have allowed for the possibility that animate bodies lie outside the scope of the laws that govern inanimate nature. (Garber1983) ...
One of its well-known representatives is the French philosopher and mathematician amp; Rene Descartes (1596- 1650). 4. Cynicism: 4th Century BC The Cynics attempt to offer people the possibility of happiness and freedom from suffering in the age of uncertainty. The meaning of life is mental ...
I consider atheism to be infeasible and always a negative position no matter the arguments put forth in its support. There are also no significant and sufficient proof or evidence that God does not exist. Other religions specifically Christianity have got viable and adequate justifications that God...