Week of August 26:  This week we are beginning to look at arguments for the existence of God.  Please discuss at least TWO of the THREE  items below in your posts. This is not an easy issue.  You

 will have to do the reading very carefully and think about it in detail.

1.Is it reasonable to believe in God if there are no perfect arguments or evidence to prove a god exists? - please explain why or why not.

2.What do you understand the ontological argument to be saying and do you think it has any merit or good to it, or do you think it is too flawed to be any good at all?  Explain.

3.  What do you understand the cosmological argument to be saying and do you think it has any merit or good to it, or do you think it is too flawed to be any good at all?  Explain.

Week of aug 19

The first part of your job this week is to create a gmail account for yourself, if you don't already have one. You may use whatever username you like- please email me your username.  You will use this account to login and post on the class blogspot: introphilthoughts.blogspot.com.  Every week you must make one thoughtful 5+ sentence post responsive to that week's prompt by Thursday at noon and then you must make posts of 5+ sentences responding to two student posts that week by Sun at noon.  There are NO makeups for missed posts!!

This week's prompt: Look through your textbook at the subject matter and types of issues discussed. Why would studying philosophy be good or useful? What difference could it make in your life?