PPT-Descartes’ ontological argument

Michael Lacewing enquiriesalevelphilosophycouk Michael Lacewing Descartes on clear and distinct ideas Clear and distinct ideas can be known to be true Clear Present accessible to the attentive mind. Quine On What There Is. The Problem of Ontology: What is there?. physical objects?. fictional characters?. numbers?. ideas?. colors?. God?. The Present King of France?. Pegasus?. The Back-Story: Russell’s Theory of Descriptions. PHIL/RS 335. The Ontological Argument. The ontological argument was first articulated in Chapter 2 of Anselm’s . Proslogion. .. Archbishop of Canterbury, Doctor of the Church; born in 1033 at . Aosta. Kevin Rogers. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860). German Philosopher. View of OA:. Sleight of hand trick. Charming joke. Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970). “It is much easier to be persuaded that ontological arguments are no good than it is to say exactly what is wrong with them”. The . argument(s. ) that form the background of the course. • the relevance of pushing political philosophy and theory of democracy to the level a philosophical reflection on . the political . or of . On The Ontological Argument Introduction The ontological argument is one of the th Page 1 of 6 On The Ontological Argument Richmond Journal of Philosophy 3 (Spring 2003) Stephen Grant but flatly d science and society. Bradley J Nordell. Special Topics Seminar Series . 1/13/2012. University of Missouri- Kansas City. Department of Physics and Astronomy. 1. Table of Contents. Introduction. Philosophical schools of quantum theory. JTB account is only a definition of . propositional . knowledge. . Explain precisely what it is about the JTB account that Gettier is critiquing.. You can use other examples of Gettier cases if . Gettier’s. Mathematician and . Father of Modern Philosophy . and the Coordinate Plane. 1595-1650. Rene Descartes was born in 1595 in . LaHaye. , France. His village has now been renamed Descartes, France in his honor. His father was a wealthy lawyer, judge and member of the French parliament. His mother died shortly after Rene was born.. Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. Substance dualism. Substance dualism. : there are two sorts of substance, mind (or soul) and matter. Minds. are distinct from bodies. for substance dualism. Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. (c) Michael Lacewing. Substance dualism. Substance dualism. : there are two sorts of substance, mind (or soul) and matter. Minds are distinct from bodies. Michael Lacewing. enquiries@alevelphilosophy.co.uk. Descartes’ question. Cosmological arguments usually ask ‘why does anything exist’?. Descartes doubts the existence of everything, and offers his cosmological argument after showing only that he . The view that mind and body. are distinct and separate . entities. . This is a compromise position between _________ dualism and materialism. This suggests that while there exists only one kind of substance, there are fundamental differences in the properties of mind and matter. . Philosophy and Scholasticism Sarah Venable Course : Philosophy 301 Instructor : Dr. Barbara Forrest Assignment : Research Paper For centuries, the Roman Catholic Church completely dominated European t according to which there also exist thinking substances or souls Finally a 3 Indeed Florka 2001 argues for the stronger view that Descartes rejected sy