Existence of God
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Existence of God

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  1. 167 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Existence of God

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About this book

The debate over the existence of God is one of the questions that has animated Western philosophy for thousands of years. In this engaging volume, Catholic theologian Francois Fenelon provides an overview of some of the most compelling arguments for and against the existence of God. A must-read for believers and skeptics alike.

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Information

Publisher
The Floating Press
Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9781775416319
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Religion

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Section I - Metaphysical Proofs of the Existence of God Are Not Within Everybody's Reach
  5. Section II - Moral Proofs of the Existence of God Are Fitted to Every Man's Capacity
  6. Section III - Why so Few Persons Are Attentive to the Proofs Nature Affords of the Existence of God
  7. Section IV - All Nature Shows the Existence of Its Maker
  8. Section V - Noble Comparisons Proving that Nature Shows the Existence of Its Maker First Comparison, Drawn from Homer's "Iliad"
  9. Section VI - Second Comparison, Drawn from the Sound of Instruments
  10. Section VII - Third Comparison, Drawn from a Statue
  11. Section VIII - Fourth Comparison, Drawn from a Picture
  12. Section IX - A Particular Examination of Nature
  13. Section X - Of the General Structure of the Universe
  14. Section XI - Of the Earth
  15. Section XII - Of Plants
  16. Section XIII - Of Water
  17. Section XIV - Of the Air
  18. Section XV - Of Fire
  19. Section XVI - Of Heaven
  20. Section XVII - Of the Sun
  21. Section XVIII - Of the Stars
  22. Section XIX - Of Animals, Beasts, Fowl, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects
  23. Section XX - Admirable Order in Which All the Bodies that Make Up the Universe Are Ranged
  24. Section XXI - Wonders of the Infinitely Little
  25. Section XXII - Of the Structure or Frame of the Animal
  26. Section XXIII - Of the Instinct of the Animal
  27. Section XXIV - Of Food
  28. Section XXV - Of Sleep
  29. Section XXVI - Of Generation
  30. Section XXVII - Though Beasts Commit Some Mistakes, Yet Their Instinct is, in Many Cases, Infallible
  31. Section XXVIII - It is Impossible Beasts Should Have Souls
  32. Section XXIX - Sentiments of Some of the Ancients Concerning the Soul and Knowledge of Beasts
  33. Section XXX - Of Man
  34. Section XXXI - Of the Structure of Man's Body
  35. Section XXXII - Of the Skin
  36. Section XXXIII - Of Veins and Arteries
  37. Section XXXIV - Of the Bones, and Their Jointing
  38. Section XXXV - Of the Organs
  39. Section XXXVI - Of the Inward Parts
  40. Section XXXVII - Of the Arms and Their Use
  41. Section XXXVIII - Of the Neck and Head
  42. Section XXXIX - Of the Forehead and Other Parts of the Face
  43. Section XL - Of the Tongue and Teeth
  44. Section XLI - Of the Smell, Taste, and Hearing
  45. Section XLII - Of the Proportion of Man's Body
  46. Section XLIII - Of the Soul, Which Alone, Among All Creatures, Thinks and Knows
  47. Section XLIV - Matter Cannot Think
  48. Section XLV - Of the Union of the Soul and Body, of Which God Alone Can Be the Author
  49. Section XLVI - The Soul Has an Absolute Command Over the Body
  50. Section XLVII - The Power of the Soul Over the Body is Not Only Supreme or Absolute, but Blind at the Same Time
  51. Section XLVIII - The Sovereignty of the Soul Over the Body Principally Appears in the Images Imprinted in the Brain
  52. Section XLIX - Two Wonders of the Memory and Brain
  53. Section L - The Mind of Man is Mixed with Greatness and Weakness Its Greatness Consists in Two Things First, the Mind Has the Id
  54. Section LI - The Mind Knows the Finite Only by the Idea of the Infinite
  55. Section LII - Secondly, the Ideas of the Mind Are Universal, Eternal, and Immutable
  56. Section LIII - Weakness of Man's Mind
  57. Section LIV - The Ideas of Man Are the Immutable Rules of His Judgment
  58. Section LV - What Man's Reason Is
  59. Section LVI - Reason is the Same in All Men, of All Ages and Countries
  60. Section LVII - Reason in Man is Independent of and Above Him
  61. Section LVIII - It is the Primitive Truth, that Lights All Minds, by Communicating Itself to Them
  62. Section LIX - It is by the Light of Primitive Truth a Man Judges Whether What One Says to Him Be True or False
  63. Section LX - The Superior Reason that Resides in Man is God Himself; And Whatever Has Been Above Discovered to Be in Man, Are Ev
  64. Section LXI - New Sensible Notices of the Deity in Man, Drawn from the Knowledge He Has of Unity
  65. Section LXII - The Idea of the Unity Proves that there Are Immaterial Substances; And that there is a Being Perfectly One, Who i
  66. Section LXIII - Dependence and Independence of Man His Dependence Proves the Existence of His Creator
  67. Section LXIV - Good Will Cannot Proceed but from a Superior Being
  68. Section LXV - As a Superior Being is the Cause of All the Modifications of Creatures, so it is Impossible for Man's Will to Will
  69. Section LXVI - Of Man's Liberty
  70. Section LXVII - Man's Liberty Consists in that His Will by Determining, Modifies Itself
  71. Section LXVIII - Will May Resist Grace, and Its Liberty is the Foundation of Merit and Demerit
  72. Section LXIX - A Character of the Deity, Both in the Dependence and Independence of Man
  73. Section LXX - The Seal and Stamp of the Deity in His Works
  74. Section LXXI - Objection of the Epicureans, Who Ascribe Everything to Chance, Considered
  75. Section LXXII - Answer to the Objection of the Epicureans, Who Ascribe All to Chance
  76. Section LXXIII - Comparison of the World with a Regular House a Continuation of the Answer to the Objection of the Epicureans
  77. Section LXXIV - Another Objection of the Epicureans Drawn from the Eternal Motion of Atoms
  78. Section LXXV - Answers to the Objection of the Epicureans Drawn from the Eternal Motion of Atoms
  79. Section LXXVI - The Epicureans Confound the Works of Art with Those of Nature
  80. Section LXXVII - The Epicureans Take Whatever They Please for Granted, Without Any Proof
  81. Section LXXVIII - The Suppositions of the Epicureans Are False and Chimerical
  82. Section LXXIX - It is Falsely Supposed that Motion is Essential to Bodies
  83. Section LXXX - The Rules of Motion, Which the Epicureans Suppose Do Not Render it Essential to Bodies
  84. Section LXXXI - To Give a Satisfactory Account of Motion We Must Recur to the First Mover
  85. Section LXXXII - No Law of Motion Has Its Foundation in the Essence of the Body; And Most of Those Laws Are Arbitrary
  86. Section LXXXIII - The Epicureans Can Draw No Consequence from All Their Suppositions, Although the Same Should Be Granted Them
  87. Section LXXXIV - Atoms Cannot Make Any Compound by the Motion the Epicureans Assign Them
  88. Section LXXXV - The Clinamen, Declination, or Sending of Atoms is a Chimerical Notion that Throws the Epicureans into a Gross Co
  89. Section LXXXVI - Strange Absurdity of the Epicureans, Who Endeavour to Account for the Nature of the Soul by the Declination of
  90. Section LXXXVII - The Epicureans Cast a Mist Before Their Own Eyes by Endeavouring to Explain the Liberty of Man by the Declinat
  91. Section LXXXVIII - We Must Necessarily Acknowledge the Hand of a First Cause in the Universe Without Inquiring Why that First Ca
  92. Section LXXXIX - The Defects of the Universe Compared with Those of a Picture
  93. Section XC - We Must Necessarily Conclude that there is a First Being that Created the Universe
  94. Section XCI - Reasons Why Men Do Not Acknowledge God in the Universe, Wherein He Shows Himself to Them, as in a Faithful Glass
  95. Section XCII - A Prayer to God