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There are three main arguments for God’s existence: the Ontological Argument, the Teleological Argument and the Cosmological Argument. Each argument has been examined in different ways by different philos...

The Formula of Universal Law (FUL) states: “One should act only in accordance with that maxim through which he can at the same time will that it become a universal law”. A maxim is a statement of mentioni...

The ontological argument is a deductive argument for the existence of God first formulated by Anselm in 1078. It has subsequently been called upon by famous Philosophers such as Descartes and Malcolm. The...

Utilitarianism is the view that the action that one is morally compelled to take in any given situation can be characterised as that which produces the greatest total utility and the smallest total harm. ...

The analytic/synthetic distinction is the claim that all statements can be classified as either synthetic or analytic. An analytic statement’s truth value can be determined simply by knowing the meaning o...