Necessary Existence

Author : Alexander R. Pruss,Joshua L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191063886

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Necessary Existence by Alexander R. Pruss,Joshua L. Rasmussen Pdf

Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things.

Author : Alexander R. Pruss,Joshua L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198746898

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Necessary Existence by Alexander R. Pruss,Joshua L. Rasmussen Pdf

"Necessary Existence' breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new "possibility-based" arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things."--

Author : Daniel D. De Haan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434523

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Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing by Daniel D. De Haan Pdf

In Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing Daniel De Haan examines the primary notions being, thing, one, and necessary and their roles in the central argument of Avicenna’s metaphysical masterpiece.

Author : Timothy O'Connor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444350883

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Theism and Ultimate Explanation by Timothy O'Connor Pdf

An expansive, yet succinct, analysis of the Philosophy of Religion – from metaphysics through theology. Organized into two sections, the text first examines truths concerning what is possible and what is necessary. These chapters lay the foundation for the book’s second part – the search for a metaphysical framework that permits the possibility of an ultimate explanation that is correct and complete. A cutting-edge scholarly work which engages with the traditional metaphysician’s quest for a true ultimate explanation of the most general features of the world we inhabit Develops an original view concerning the epistemology and metaphysics of modality, or truths concerning what is possible or necessary Applies this framework to a re-examination of the cosmological argument for theism Defends a novel version of the Leibnizian cosmological argument

Author : Nicholas Everitt
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415301068

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The Non-existence of God by Nicholas Everitt Pdf

Arguments for the existence of God have taken many different forms over the centuries: in The Non-Existence of God, Everitt considers all the arguments and examines the role that reason and knowledge play in the debate over God's existence.

Author : Fazlur Rahman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873953002

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The Philosophy of Mullā Ṣadrā (Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shirāzī) by Fazlur Rahman Pdf

Explores the philosophy of Mulla Sadra Shirazi.

Author : Denys Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521602564

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Faith, Reason and the Existence of God by Denys Turner Pdf

The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today and is thought by most Christian theologians to be incompatible with Christian faith. This book argues that, on the contrary, there are reasons of faith why in principle the existence of God should be thought rationally demonstrable and that it is worthwhile revisiting the theology of Thomas Aquinas to see why this is so. The book further suggests that philosophical objections to proofs of God's existence rely upon an attenuated and impoverished conception of reason which theologians of all monotheistic traditions might wish to reject. Denys Turner proposes that on a broader and deeper conception of it, human rationality is open to the 'sacramental shape' of creation as such and in its exercise of rational proof of God it in some way participates in that sacramentality of all things.

Author : London city mission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Christian socialism
ISBN : OXFORD:590616514

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Lectures Against Socialism by London city mission Pdf

Author : Q.B. Gibson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780792351887

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The Existence Principle by Q.B. Gibson Pdf

When we ask whether something exists, we expect a yes or no answer, not a further query about what kind of existence, how much of it, whether we mean existence for you or existence for me, or whether we are asking about some property which it might have. In this book, this simple requirement is defended and pursued into its various and sometimes surprising implications. In the course of this pursuit, such questions arise as `Do appearances exist?' `Do unknowable things exist?' `Do past and future exist?' `Does God necessarily exist?' This novel and non-technical approach to important philosophical questions will be of interest to senior students of philosophy and, indeed, to all general readers with philosophical interests.

Author : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521190732

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Interpreting Avicenna by Peter Adamson Pdf

This volume examines many aspects of the philosophy of Avicenna, the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world.

Author : Michael Augros
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783868382211

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Aquinas on Theology and God’s Existence by Michael Augros Pdf

Intended for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and teachers, this new translation and exposition of the first two Questions of the Summa theologiae explains the text in unprecedented detail. The famous “Five Ways” of Aquinas receive ample consideration. The arguments are placed in their larger context in Thomistic philosophy and traced back to first principles, which in turn are illustrated by examples and defended from common objections. All technical terms occurring in the text are defined or explained in both the commentary and the glossary. Throughout, attention is paid to the rationale behind the order in which Aquinas proceeds. 574 pages; includes three appendices, an index of primary sources useful to know in reading the first two Questions, and exhaustive glossary. Michael Augros earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Boston College in 1995. He has taught at Thomas Aquinas college for many years at its California campus, and now teaches at its New England campus. He is the author of two popular books on the philosophy of Aquinas, Who Designed the Designer? and The Immortal in You, both from Ignatius Press.

Author : Maurice R. Holloway,George Klubertanz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783868382792

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Being and God by Maurice R. Holloway,George Klubertanz Pdf

The subject of this book is “metaphysics.” Aristotle called it “first philosophy”; by this term he and St. Thomas Aquinas mean the full philosophical treatment of being and its Cause, of Being and God. Metaphysics begins with the beings of experience. Its preliminary concern is with the beings of direct experience, not with concepts, not with emotions or guesses (no matter how noble), not with some logical pre-conditions of experience (often dignified with the impressive term “a priori conditions”). In the beings of experience, and there only, we find what being is, and by an inductive analysis we come to know its intrinsic and extrinsic principles as well as its common attributes. But metaphysics, in its full sense, is more than an “immanent metaphysics,” as some recent philosophers would wish it to be; the principles the metaphysician finds in the beings of experience lead him beyond experience.

Author : Francis Beattie
Publisher : Christian Publishing House
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798834879145

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CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS by Francis Beattie Pdf

Herein we have a Reformed approach to apologetics by Presbyterian professor Francis R. Beattie. He contends that the best way to defend Christianity is to offer the unbeliever the essential, fundamental, foundational strength of its doctrines. He presents the rational basis of Christian teaching by contrast with competing views and an investigation of the evidence for the facts of Christianity.

Author : Arthur Witherall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351883542

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The Problem of Existence by Arthur Witherall Pdf

This book explores the question of why there is something instead of nothing. Several responses to this question are possible, but only some of them address the question seriously, respecting its emotional aspects as well as its cognitive dimension. The author carefully distinguishes those answers that are truly satisfactory, in both respects, from those that are inadequate. It can be argued that the existence of the world has no explanation at all, or that there is a necessary being whose existence is self-explanatory, or that the world exists because it has value. Each kind of response is defensible to some degree, and it is argued that where they are defensible, they have a common content. Incorporating aspects of both the 'analytical' and 'continental' traditions, this book also responds to several historical philosophers concerned with these questions, including Plato, Leibniz, Kant and Nietzsche.

Author : Lord Peter King King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2RXF

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The Life and Letters of John Locke by Lord Peter King King Pdf