Necessary Existence Of God

Author : Alexander R. Pruss,Joshua L. Rasmussen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Peter Adamson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Timothy O'Connor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : William Honyman Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : God
ISBN : OCLC:1015503345

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The Necessary Existence of God by William Honyman Gillespie Pdf

Author : William Honyman Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : God
ISBN : UOM:39015062242535

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The Necessary Existence of God by William Honyman Gillespie Pdf

Author : Tim Bayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 9780198754961

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Philosophy of Religion by Tim Bayne Pdf

What is the philosophy of religion? How can we distinguish it from theology on the one hand and the psychology/sociology of religious belief on the other? What does it mean to describe God as eternal? And should religious people want there to be good arguments for the existence of God, or is religious belief only authentic in the absence of these good arguments? In this Very Short Introduction Tim Bayne introduces the field of philosophy of religion, and engages with some of the most burning questions that philosophers discuss. Considering how religion should be defined, and whether we even need to be able to define it in order to engage in the philosophy of religion, he goes on to discuss whether the existence of God matters. Exploring the problem of evil, Bayne also debates the connection between faith and reason, and the related question of what role reason should play in religious contexts. Shedding light on the relationship between science and religion, Bayne finishes by considering the topics of reincarnation and the afterlife. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : William Honyman Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019980057

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The Necessary Existence of God. New Edition by William Honyman Gillespie Pdf

Author : William Honyman Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Space and time
ISBN : OCLC:25695351

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The Necessary Existence of God by William Honyman Gillespie Pdf

Author : Jonathan Barnes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1972-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349007738

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The Ontological Argument by Jonathan Barnes Pdf

Author : Bob Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199669578

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Necessary Beings by Bob Hale Pdf

Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.

Author : William Honyman Gillespie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0371083133

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The Necessary Existence of God by William Honyman Gillespie Pdf

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Author : John Hick
Publisher : [New York] : Herder and Herder
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : God
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036231228

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Arguments for the Existence of God by John Hick Pdf

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0803277776

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Der Einzig M”gliche Beweisgrund by Immanuel Kant Pdf

The search for God is dictated not from without but from a profound sense of one's own moral being and worthiness to be happy. The core of Immanuel Kant's argument remains relevant to the experience of ordinary men and women. He wished to strengthen, not undermine, belief in God and in the spiritual nature of humankind. This 1763 essay is imporrtant in understanding the development of Kant's thought. It exposed the flaw in the Cartesian argument that the existence of a perfect being could be deduced from an idea or concept of such. Similarly, Kant saw the problem inherent in the Leibnizian view of a philosophical system modeled on mathematics: a philosopher who, like a mathematician, began with an arbitrary definition remained trapped in a circle of words. In The One Possible Basis for a Demonstration of the Existence of God, Kant diverged from the familiar forms of ontological argument. The result was a brilliant approach to divine being that anticipated his mature Critique of Pure Reason. With this Bison Book edition, The One Possible Basis appears in paperback for the first time. Gordon Treash's English translation, the only modern one, faces pages containing the original German. Treash, who is a professor of philosophy at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, edited, with Paul A. Bogaard, Metaphysics as Foundation: Essays in Honor of Ivor Leclerc. Also available as a Bison Book is Kant's last major essay, The Conflict of the Faculties (1992).

Author : Q.B. Gibson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,7 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 : R. T. Allen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351478779

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The Necessity of God by R. T. Allen Pdf

Every person acquires a worldview, a picture of reality. Within that picture, the existence of some things will be taken wholly for granted as the background to, and support of, everything else. Their existence will rarely be questioned. The cosmos or universe, the gods, God, Brahman, Heaven, the Absolute--R. T. Allen claims that all these and other world- views have been held to be that which necessarily exists and upon which all other beings depend in one way or another.European philosophers, since antiquity, have offered arguments to show that their chosen candidates for the role of the necessary being or beings that support the rest of reality do actually exist. The Necessity of God sets the valid core of previous ontological arguments. It does not and cannot prove that God exists, but only that something necessarily exists. In an a priori manner and without inferring anything from what in fact exists, Allen proceeds to show that which necessarily exists is one, transfinite, eternal, and the archetype of personal existence: in short, that it is God as classically conceived. As for everything else that may exist, it must be finite and dependent for its existence upon God as its creator and sustainer.Few things are more erroneous in philosophy and disastrous in practice than artificial constructions produced without constant reference to concrete reality. That which necessarily exists may be the one exception. Before this constructive argument, Allen examines previous examples of ontological arguments in order to show exactly where they go wrong and to extract the valid core obscured within them. This will make clear the difference between them and his new version. The reader who is eager to engage the philosophical sources of belief will find a distinct treasure in The Necessity of God.