Young Philosophers edit news on election day
The Philosophy Foundation’s group of under privileged youngsters got to edit the news at The Guardian offices on the 9th of June. It was a long and rewarding day for all of us... starting off with some thought provoking enquiry: "the sun will rise tomorrow" is that a fact, or an opinion?
Posted by on 14th June 2017 at 12:00am
Category: Philosophy, P4C, Education
Believers should be glad that proofs for God don’t work
The so-called proofs for the existence of God are widely thought to fail.
Philosophers point out that there is no need for an ‘unmoved mover’, to use Aristotle’s phrase, because modern physics teaches us that motion is natural to matter, not stasis. Alternatively, the ontological argument comes to look like a conjuring trick with words: it is no more the case that God needs to exist because God’s imagined greatness demands it, than it is the case that a perfect island needs to exist because it is described as perfect. Both might be fantasy.
By our Guest Blogger: Mark Vernon. The Big Questions: God
Posted by on 21st April 2012 at 12:00am
Category: Guest Blogger
