Before taking philosophy, there was not any knowledge in my mind concerning the subject. After taking the subject and learning through the readings, it has broadened my mind to what philosophy actually means. Philosophy is the study of the nature of knowledge, reality and existence in part with academic discipline. Through the readings, there became an understanding through these philosophers writings on their view of different topics.
!2 believe whether God was really in existence when an immortal who was to want all good and no evil, would let his “children” run rampant and wreak havoc with being punished for their sins.
“… philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of questions themselves.”(Russell 4) No matter how much we may question and ask questions on what there was or what there can be, there will never be a real answer. Between philosophy and now, there have been questions that have been subjected to the forefront , such as the topic of God, whether he is real or did we, as humans, give him life and prominence.
teachings, because of his Platonic view, Christians have a view of Heaven that is not Biblical.
Augustine had belief in this as well. He was attracted to the spiritual part of it, being the kingdom and that the kingdom of God consisted of eternal life while in Heaven with God.
“The true foundation of a devout life is to have a right view of God, and we do not have a right view of God unless we believe Him to be almighty, utterly un-changeable, the creator of all things that are good, though Himself more excellent than they, the utterly just ruler of all He created, self-sufficient and therefore without assistance from any other being in the act of creation. It follows from this that He created all out of nothing.
The Platonic ideas that Plato put in the open for Christians today, started out with the Heavens.
Christians believe that, although the world is not perfect, with God, the Heavenly Father, there can be no wrong done and everyone will be forgiven for their sins once they repent.
Jesus Christ has lived on long after his body died. Many centuries after his passing, those who believe in Him still worship his soul. There’s many who believe in Aristotle’s logic but there are others who beg to differ on the subject as well. It was more so Plato who set the groundwork for scientific thought rather than Aristotle with believing that the soul lives as after death since the soul of Jesus Christ is still alive and well to this day.
!4 based on experience and Descartes, who believed reason and logic are based on knowledge had a similar approach than Aristotle and Plato. The four philosophers have a similar approach when it comes to their logic. Between Plato and Aristotle, they tried to prove that the body and soul worked for each other whether it be that the soul lived on after the body died for the soul died with the body.