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A 5 page paper which examines Aquinas
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exists, others argue that God does not exist, or that we can find no philosophical proof that he exists. Two powerful thinkers concerning the existence of God were David Hume
and Thomas Aquinas. In the following paper we examine their perspectives, individually, as they involve the argument for or against the existence of God. The paper discusses Humes "An Enquiry
concerning Human Understanding" and Aquinas "Suma Theologica." Hume "Hume believed that God was a complex idea we paste together in our minds...Hume rejected any attempt to prove the
existence of God. This is not to say that he ruled out the possibility that God exists; he thought however that to try to prove religious faith by human reason
was rationalistic claptrap" (Anonymous Hume (1711-1776), 2002; hume.htm). While "Hume accepted dogmatically what had been the initial step for Locke and Berkeley -- namely, that the object of knowledge is
solely the sense impressions perceived by the subject...he did not allow himself to make any concession to classical philosophy, as Locke had done by admitting the validity of the principle
of causality and the existence of substance" (Anonymous David Hume, 2002; phildavidhume1.htm). And he was clearly not guided, as perhaps they were, by any dogmatic or religious principles. He argued
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, of the exterior world, or of our own
soul" (Anonymous David Hume, 2002; phildavidhume1.htm). In his work "An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding" "Hume proposes this distinction between impressions and ideas because, like Locke, he thinks that all
our knowledge comes from experience, and in particular from deliverances of outer or inner sense. However, he thinks that when it comes to our mind combining and abstracting our ideas,
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