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Essay heading: "Our sense of goodness presupposes the existence of God". Analyse and evaluate this claim with reference to the moral argument for the existence of God.
Here, there is the difficulty that the universe may not be fair, this being the case the postulates are not needed. Kant's other assumption is that everybody's aim is achieve summum bonum, but it would be wrong to assume that everybody has the same goals in life.
We can summarise Kant's argument into three different stages, firstly; morality demands us to aim for the highest good, secondly; we cannot attain this unless there is a God to assist us, and lastly; God must exist to ensure that we achieve that which we are duty bound to do... displayed 300 characters
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If you were to share Kant's assumptions, it would become necessary to assume that there is a God.
Although Kant's argument is indeed notable, there are a number of criticisms. Firstly, it does not prove the God of classical theism, for if summum bonum can be achieved by humans, then it means that not only God can, and he is not omnipotent... displayed next 300 characters
My project outline will consist on the roles on how the universe in our existence measures up to our life and what role it plays within us as human beings...
Following from the proof that substance is infinite, that is having infinite attributes, means that there is only one substance in existence that necessarily contains every possible attribute...
But, the universe exists now therefore it must have had a beginning. By definition a necessary being has no beginning and now end. Due to this definition we can say that the universe is not a necessary being...
Here, there is the difficulty that the universe may not be fair, this being the case the postulates are not needed. Kant's other assumption is that everybody's aim is achieve summum bonum, but it would be wrong to assume that everybody has the same goals in life...
Hence it is plain that they achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly. Now whatever lacks knowledge cannot move towards an end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence; as the arrow is directed by the archer...
The Elements consists of thirteen books. Some assumptions are not totally provable, such that there is only one straight line between two points. Euclid makes some assumptions that make his form of mathematics, Euclidean Geometry, sometimes at odds with other forms...
