Ontology

Dr. Mark W. Foreman warns Christians in Prelude to Philosophy to avoid the extreme case of disregarding the Bible when “doing philosophy” (94). He points out that some individuals maintain the necessity of abandoning “convictions, presuppositions and worldviews [in order to] adopt a position of neutrality in doing philosophy” (Foreman 94). According to Dr. Foreman, the individuals advocating absolute neutrality contend that a view should only be accepted “after examining all possible views from…

It is clear to state that man can be blinded by the materialist view of this puzzling world because of the value and beauty that man puts upon each and every object that is being place on this earth. But, what’s truly sad about man is that, when one man tries to help another man to expand on the intellect of the puzzling world that he lives in, instead of creating an environment of intellectual safety, man resides into the side of ignorance and rejects the idea of intellectual expansion. The…

that God’s knowledge is creative as stated before. Pieper says it best when he states, “We are not simply declaring here, strictly speaking that God has created everything out of nothing, rather we intend to say, using an image from ancient Egyptian ontology that everything has sprung from god’s eyes” (Pieper, 44). So furthermore how a human mind receives the truth in all things and how it is presented in God’s eye are similar. For us to know the being we must know the truth which has spawned…

Reality is essentially the study of what is real and the effort to establish a hierarchy of levels of reality; ontology is a specific branch of science with classification of entities in accordance with such a hierarchy. The problem of evil is the confusion that emerges from trying to reconcile the belief that God is the all powerful, all knowing, and just with the…

magnum of Niccolo Machiavelli could be a perfect example to illustrate these positions. In this sense, and as David Marsh and Paul Furlong (2002) argue, “ontological questions are prior because they deal with the very nature of being; literally an ontology is a theory of being”. In an attempt to identify an ontological position in The Prince and in any other literary work, the question that leads us must be “whether there is a real world out there that is independent of our knowledge of it…

faith or some belief in God, it was meant for the believer seeking understanding, in other words some logic behind their belief. Since only the “fool” knows but does not believe (Psalms 14:1, 53:1). The word, ‘Ontological’ comes from the prefix ‘ontology’ meaning ‘metaphysical science or study of being’. The argument is not a posteriori argument, thus not being based off experience or observations like The Teleological argument produced…

is not conserved, we can grow our knowledge and that basically is improving our information base. Now relating the mind body dualism with other great philosophers, I find that it coincides with Plato’s ideas that exist as pure form, although its ontology is different from that of matter. The existential status of Platonic Ideas was questioned and asked about by the ancients. On the other hand, monists see the mind-body distinction as a pure physical aspect, since the information in matter…

The study of “the self” in philosophy is often concentrated around the idea of existence. To understand what it is to “be” means realizing a universal mentality in a singular human life. Jean-Paul Sartre addresses his perspective primarily through phenomenology and the concept of free will. He claims, to be human is to be depicted by “an existence that precedes its essence” (Sartre 318). In this paper, I will argue for Sartre’s theory of existentialism by analyzing human consciousness and…

The process for Peirce involves a «progressive investigation», which he defines as the «activity of thought by which we are carried, not where we wish, but to a foreordained goal, [-the impersonal truth]» (CP 5.407 1878). This idea is also captured in the following words of Peirce; The real, then, is that which, sooner or later, information and reasoning would finally result in, and which is therefore independent of the vagaries of me and you. Thus, the very origin of the conception of reality…

Philosophy is the study of ideas. Philosophy has four main branches: Ontology, study of reality: Epistemology, study of knowledge: Ethics, The study of moral: Aesthetics, study of art and beauty. Many Philosophers like Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle etc. contributed their own knowledge so we can use their philosophy in our life. According to Sir David, Humanism focuses on personal freedom, choice and responsibility. Achievement motivation towards highest levels. Control of own Destiny. Child…