Archive for September 18th, 2008
Train Job
For the following exercise I assume that we are all good at playing trains. So, suppose that on the first track of the trolley lies Ron Paul, and on the second track lie Lew Rockwell, Tom Woods, Bob Higgs, David Gordon, and Joseph Salerno all tied up by the mustachioed villain Statist Ideology. You can’t [...]
Posted: September 18th, 2008 under Ethics, Philosophy.
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The 3 First Causes
1. The first argument for God’s existence is from “the first designing cause.” A is designed by B; B, by C; etc. There must then be a being which is undesigned but who is the author of nature. Now a designer is by definition intelligent. Since design is purposeful arrangement of parts, either (1) God’s [...]
Posted: September 18th, 2008 under Metaphysics, Philosophy, Religion.
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The Fourth Way
Aquinas’s fourth proof of the existence of God is from “degrees of perfection.” It is curious how our author knows that man is not the measure of all things. Is it not possible that intelligence, power, love, being or goodness as such, and other perfections find their greatest manifestation in man? But surely, this is [...]
Posted: September 18th, 2008 under Metaphysics, Philosophy.
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