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Author : Richard M. Gale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107142350
This influential book evaluates the arguments for the existence and nature of God that emerged in the late twentieth century.
Author : Ivor Leclerc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317852988
This is Volume II of six in a collection on Epistemology. Originally published in 1972, the central concern of this book is the understanding of the nature of the universe. Its field is thus that which until the eighteenth century had been known as philosophia naturalis, the philosophy of nature. The aim of the book is to elucidate and examine the fundamental concepts in terms of which the universe is understood.
Author : John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart,Ellis McTaggart
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1988-07-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521357691
Author : Alfred J. Freddoso
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015012258334
These original essays offer evidence that a growing number of Anglo-American philosophers are finding in the classical discussion of God's existence and nature fertile sources for the critical reflection on issues in the philosophy of religion. Nelson Pike challenges Aquinas' claim that God is not responsible for evil and shows how the rejection of this claim bears on the proem of evil. Richard Swinburne defends the classical Christian understanding of heaven and hell, arguing that it is both philosophically plausible and compatible with the Christian conception of God's goodness. Philip Quinn proposes a defensible version of the classical assertion that God's conserving a creature in existence is tantamount to his continuously creating that creature. Thomas Flint and Alfred Freddoso present an analysis of omnipotence which they claim to be both philosophically adequate and consonant with the orthodox Christian belief that God is both omnipotent and incapable of sinning. James Ross's main purpose is to dislodge the assumption that God's power is properly and adequately thought of as the power to cause (or bring about or actualize) states of affairs. Clement Dore reinterprets and defends Descartes' often maligned Fifth Meditation argument for God's existence. finally, Mark Jordan explicates the metaphysical foundations of Aquinas' doctrine of divine names.
Author : Camposampiero, Matteo Favaretti,Matteo Plebani
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110321807
Is all that exists part of the natural world? If there are non-natural entities, what is their difference from natural things? Is the human-independent realm of nature the only paradigm for ontological respectability, as naturalism claims? Can existence be simply explained away by means of formal devices? Philosophers keep struggling with such questions. Still, the two basic notions involved, that of existence and that of nature, have not yet been fully explored. The four essays collected here address the issue from the points of view of the philosophy of mathematics, of analytic ontology, of early modern philosophy, and of contemporary phenomenology. The results will surprise the reader: difficult topics are unlocked, long-received views are called into question, and new perspectives are opened.
Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521029100
Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.
Author : John McTaggart,Ellis McTaggart
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988-07-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0521357683
Author : Colliber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1735
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00020655
Author : Samuel Colliber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1735
Category : God
ISBN : BL:A0025811541
Author : Joshua Hoffman,Gary Rosenkrantz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-02-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134831357
Substance has been a leading idea in the history of Western philosophy. Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz explain the nature and existence of individual substances, including both living things and inanimate objects. Specifically written for students new to this important and often complex subject, Substance provides both the historical and contemporary overview of the debate. Great Philosophers of the past, such as Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, and Berkeley were profoundly interested in the concept of substance. And, the authors argue, a belief in the existence of substances is an integral part of our everyday world view. But what constitutes substance? Was Aristotle right to suggest that artefacts like tables and ships don't really exist? Substance: Its Nature and Existence is one of the first non-technical, accessible guides to this central problem and will be of great use to students of metaphysics and philosophy.
Author : William Paley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Natural history
ISBN : BL:A0022683351
Author : Edward O. Wilson
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780871404800
National Book Award Finalist. How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?" In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson grapples with these and other existential questions, examining what makes human beings supremely different from all other species. Searching for meaning in what Nietzsche once called "the rainbow colors" around the outer edges of knowledge and imagination, Wilson takes his readers on a journey, in the process bridging science and philosophy to create a twenty-first-century treatise on human existence—from our earliest inception to a provocative look at what the future of mankind portends. Continuing his groundbreaking examination of our "Anthropocene Epoch," which he began with The Social Conquest of Earth, described by the New York Times as "a sweeping account of the human rise to domination of the biosphere," here Wilson posits that we, as a species, now know enough about the universe and ourselves that we can begin to approach questions about our place in the cosmos and the meaning of intelligent life in a systematic, indeed, in a testable way. Once criticized for a purely mechanistic view of human life and an overreliance on genetic predetermination, Wilson presents in The Meaning of Human Existence his most expansive and advanced theories on the sovereignty of human life, recognizing that, even though the human and the spider evolved similarly, the poet's sonnet is wholly different from the spider's web. Whether attempting to explicate "The Riddle of the Human Species," "Free Will," or "Religion"; warning of "The Collapse of Biodiversity"; or even creating a plausible "Portrait of E.T.," Wilson does indeed believe that humanity holds a special position in the known universe. The human epoch that began in biological evolution and passed into pre-, then recorded, history is now more than ever before in our hands. Yet alarmed that we are about to abandon natural selection by redesigning biology and human nature as we wish them, Wilson soberly concludes that advances in science and technology bring us our greatest moral dilemma since God stayed the hand of Abraham.
Author : Walter Terence Stace
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UCAL:B4390638
Author : Jim Holt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780871403278
The Washington Post Notable Non-Fiction of 2013 “I can imagine few more enjoyable ways of thinking than to read this book.”—Sarah Bakewell, New York Times Book Review, front-page review Tackling the “darkest question in all of philosophy” with “raffish erudition” (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the public alike, traces our latest efforts to grasp the origins of the universe. Holt adopts the role of cosmological detective, traveling the globe to interview a host of celebrated scientists, philosophers, and writers, “testing the contentions of one against the theories of the other” (Jeremy Bernstein, Wall Street Journal). As he interrogates his list of ontological culprits, the brilliant yet slyly humorous Holt contends that we might have been too narrow in limiting our suspects to God versus the Big Bang. This “deft and consuming” (David Ulin, Los Angeles Times) narrative humanizes the profound questions of meaning and existence it confronts.
Author : Christopher Greenwood
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1483578232
The universe has a great nature we are all apart of from the studies of philosophy , science, and history the whole of existence is a completely uniquely infinite . That is how pantheism has its importance as a philosophy to know existence and the rest of human history surrounded in great achievements due curiosity of nature . As a work of knowledge philosophy and science has the greatest achievements of the universes history.
