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Teleological Argument for the Existence of God [addendum] Summary
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Teleological Argument for the Existence of God [addendum] See Also Collins 2002). Swinburne's Cumulative Case for God's Existence Is an Argument to the Best Explanation, Citing Various Pieces of Data or Evidence That Are (A) Relatively...
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Teleology
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Causality in which the effect is explained by an end (Greek, telos) to be realized. Teleology thus differs essentially from efficient causality, in which an effect is dependent on prior events. Aristotle's account of teleology declared that a full...
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Common Consent Arguments for the Existence of God Summary
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Common Consent Arguments for the Existence of God Numerous philosophers and theologians have appealed to the "common consent" of humankind (the consensus gentium ) as support for certain doctrines. Richard Hooker, for example, in his...
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Teleological argument Information
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A teleological argument, or argument from design, is an argument for the existence of God or a creator based on perceived evidence of order, purpose, design, or direction—or some combination of these—in nature. The word "teleological" is derived...
 


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Journal of Church and State
God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science.(Book Review)
09/22/2003: 789 words, approx. 3 pages
Edited by Neil A. Manson. New York: Routledge, 2003. 376 pp. $80.00 cloth, $25.95 paper. This edited collection of nineteen essays with a helpful introduction provides a near state-of-the-art discussion, pro and con, of recent developments in formal design arguments, the propriety...
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The Review of Metaphysics
Metaethics and teleology.
09/01/2001: 5,949 words, approx. 20 pages
THERE IS AN IMPORTANT RESPECT in which virtue-centered ethical realism needs to be more Aristotelian than it is typically willing to admit. This concerns the way in which teleological considerations need to be more explicitly acknowledged. Reflection on moral phenomenology, discourse, and practice...
 


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The Teleological Argument
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The Teleological Argument, attributed to William Paley through his book Natural Theology (1802), is an a posteriori argument intended to prove the existence of God.


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