Essays Tagged: "Alvin Plantinga"

Plantinga's Properly Basic Beliefs

Alvin Plantinga's states that Christians do not need any arguments for believing in God because beli ...

(7 pages) 59 0 4.8 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

THE DUALIST DILEMMA. This essay is a critique of substance dualism, an ontology embodied by the likes of Rene Descartes. Specifically, the essay attacks several of Descartes own dualist principles.

or self-defining properties. More specifically, as evidenced in the writings of Descartes, and also Alvin Plantinga, the dualist seeks to ascribe a sort of substance quality to the mind, although quit ... g principles. Analysis of Meditations II and IV from Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy, and Alvin Plantinga's subsequent contemporary extension of these ideas in "Could Socrates Have Been an A ...

(6 pages) 213 0 3.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy

Describe the ontological argument with reactions and contributions made to it by individual philosophers

to exist.Another example of a modern extension to the ontological argument has been put forward by Alvin Plantinga. He adds another difference to the argument by including the likelihood of 'possible ...

(4 pages) 69 0 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

The Problem of Evil: Is the Existence of Evil Evidence Against the Existence of God?

il if it has a good reason to do so.What reason could God possibly have to allow evil in the world? Alvin Plantinga wrote the "Free Will Defense" in response to Mackie's claims of the logical impossib ... Omnipotence." Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings. New York: Oxford, 2001. 263-273.Plantinga, Alvin. "The Free Will Defense." Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings. New York: Oxford, 2001. 2 ...

(9 pages) 217 1 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith

What is the definition of evil in today's society? Why does God, if He exists, allow catastrophes to occur?

one decidedly on the sidelines...against evil." Rosenbaum also states another popular theory, where Alvin Plantinga states that if people are to have free will, then it is inevitable that evil will ex ...

(7 pages) 47 0 0.0 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

"The Ontological Argument": Explain the traditional forms of the ontological argument put forward by Anselm and Descartes

ther philosophers such as Rene Descartes, Gottfried Leibnix, Norman Malcolm, Charles Hartshorne and Alvin Plantinga; a modal logic version of the argument was formulated by Kurt Godel. The argument it ...

(6 pages) 22 0 3.0 Oct/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy

Cosmological Argument

(7 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity