This significant textbook introduces the six nice arguments for the life of God, as present in a wealth of basic assets from vintage and modern texts. It calls for no expert wisdom of philosophy, and is perfect to scholars and academics in school or collage point. Sections include:
* The Ontological Argument (Anselm, Haight, Descartes, Kant, Findlay, Malcolm, Hick)
* The Cosmological Argument (Aquinas, Taylor, Hume, Kant)
* The Argument from layout (Paley, Hume, Darwin, Dawkins, Ward)
* The Argument from Miracles (Hume, Hambourger, Coleman, Flew, Swinburne, Diamond)
* the ethical Argument (Plato, Lewis, Kant, Rachels, Martin, Nielsen)
* The Pragmatic Argument (Pascal, Gracely, Stich, Penelhum, James, Moore).
Additional positive factors contain:
* revision questions
* key analyzing for every bankruptcy and an intensive bibliography
* illustrated biographies of key thinkers and their works
* marginal notes and summaries of arguments.
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