Search results for "Teleological argument" - New World Encyclopedia
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- William Paley gave a well-known rendition of the teleological argument ... presents a version of the teleological argument for God's existence ...12 KB (1,729 words) - 15:21, 11 November 2022
- throughout by wit and a keen sense of argument that has ensured continued ... vision of the universe is thoroughly teleological (i.e. concerned with the ...11 KB (1,695 words) - 05:22, 31 July 2023
- beings within it. Drawing upon the teleological argument, Dvaita claims that ... must also have a cause (see cosmological argument). This was Isvara, the possessor ...11 KB (1,693 words) - 06:19, 11 March 2024
- (God) to the existing universe. The teleological argument assumes that the ... ==The teleological argument== The teleological argument (argument from ...81 KB (12,883 words) - 08:12, 24 January 2023
- Kierkegaard called this event the teleological suspension of the ethical ... But there is no valid logical argument one can make to claim that ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- because their conception of nature was teleological rather than mechanistic ... points out the flaws of a typical anti-mechanist argument. ...18 KB (2,812 words) - 09:35, 10 March 2023
- He is. The validity of this ontological argument has been discussed throughout ... Kant discusses the antinomy of the teleological view of nature and the ...15 KB (2,342 words) - 06:35, 31 July 2023
- to be true. Thomas Aquinas made this argument in the thirteenth century ... cause must be God. Similarly, the teleological argument credits the appearance ...19 KB (2,872 words) - 23:50, 17 November 2022
- having decisively refuted a posteriori teleological theories or what he calls ... the autonomy of ethics by means of an argument which has come to be known ...19 KB (2,855 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- to articulate a discrimination argument against not acknowledging ... Perhaps the most famous contemporary philosophical argument for animal ...32 KB (4,972 words) - 06:14, 28 July 2023
- as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God ... rationalists by Kant. Anselm's argument proceeds to demonstrate ...33 KB (5,289 words) - 05:15, 31 July 2023
- a neoclassical concept of God and a modal argument for the existence of God ... Although he preferred the ontological argument for the existence of God ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- for "wisdom" as well. This argument, however, was inverted by ... The teleological nature of reality was discussed by Plato and Aristotle ...25 KB (3,698 words) - 10:29, 26 September 2023
- Natural law was inherently teleological in its preoccupation with ... By the seventeenth century, the medieval teleological view had come ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- first recorded example of a cosmological argument for God's existence. ... This is essentially the teleological argument for God's existence ...28 KB (4,356 words) - 22:59, 30 April 2023
- Barrow and Tipler carefully distinguish teleological reasoning from eutaxiological ... This is the weak anthropic principle. The argument can be used to explain why ...36 KB (5,492 words) - 06:15, 31 July 2023
- of right, duty and liberty remains a seductive argument. ... one's self. This is an important teleological protection: the Jeffersonian ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- ethics. (See also the articles on teleological ethics; deontological ... production are clearly immoral. This easy argument shows how philosophical ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 04:33, 22 March 2024
- which questioned the ontological argument for God in the form it was ... of the beautiful and sublime, and teleological judgment, that is, construing ...48 KB (7,410 words) - 18:17, 23 January 2024
- for instance, Spinoza's attack on teleological explanation in the Appendix ... Hume's analysis has been used as an argument against metaphysics ...23 KB (3,623 words) - 16:19, 3 December 2023
