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Although Kantian ethics are inflexible and therefore deemed unrealistic by some, one strength is that it upholds everyone's innate dignity and importance. What Kant advocated was for people not to be treated...

St Thomas Aquinas develops his idea of the natural good based, primarily, on the foundational principle that all things made by God have a purpose, or 'telos.' This principle was first theorised by Aristotle...

St Thomas Aquinas defined miracles as events done by God that nature: 1. Could never do (e.g. miracle of Fatima), 2. Could do but never in that order (e.g. bringing someone back from the dead), or 3. Can do ...

FR Tennant (in his book Philosophical theology 1930) posits two arguments. The aesthetic argument and the anthropic argument. The aesthetic argument is based on a human being's appreciation of beauty in the ...

The Inconsistent Triad is an argument against the concept of an all-powerful and all-loving God whilst suffering persists. The existence of suffering alongside an all-loving (omnibenevolent) and all-powerful...