The Impossibility And Necessity Of Theodicy

Author : Andrea Poma
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400750319

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The Impossibility and Necessity of Theodicy by Andrea Poma Pdf

This book provides an analytical interpretation of Leibniz's 'Essais de Théodicée' with wide-ranging references to all his works. It shows and upholds many thesis: Leibniz's rational conception of faith, his rational notion of mystery, the reformation of classical ontology, and the importance of Leibniz's thought in the tradition of the critical idealism. In his endeavor to formulate a theodicy, Leibniz emerges as a classic exponent of a non-immanentist modern rationalism, capable of engaging in a close dialogue with religion and faith. This relation implies that God and reason are directly involved in posing the challenge and that the defence of one is the defence of the other. Theodicy and logodicy are two key aspects of a philosophy which is open to faith and of a faith which is able to intervene in culture and history.

Author : Michael Martin,Ricki Monnier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015058077697

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The Impossibility of God by Michael Martin,Ricki Monnier Pdf

Most people, believers and nonbelievers alike, are unfamiliar with the variety and force of arguments for the impossibility of God. Yet over recent years a growing number of scholars have been formulating and developing a series of increasingly powerful arguments that the concept of God, as variously understood by the world's major religions and leading theologians, is contradictory in many ways, and therefore God does not and cannot exist. This unique anthology brings together for the first time most of the important arguments for the impossibility of God that have been published. The collection includes papers and book selections by J. L. Mackie, Quentin Smith, Theodore Drange, Michael Martin, and many other distinguished scholars. The editors provide a general introduction and brief summaries of the arguments to help the reader grasp the crucial issues involved. Both students and teachers of philosophy and the philosophy of religion will find this anthology to be an indispensable resource.

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781616402952

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Theodicy by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Pdf

In this 1710 treatise, Gottfried Liebniz's only book-length work, he applies the idea of philosophical "optimism"-that we live in the best of all possible worlds-to the "problem of evil"-If a benevolent God exists, why do terrible things happen? He explores the possibility that humanity's happiness is not necessarily part of God's plan. Much of Leibniz's thinking in the realm of the sciences flowed from his philosophy-he believed the universe to operate under simple, intelligible, interconnected rules. Understanding how he approached the metaphysical world and humanity's place in it is vital to understanding his contributions to modern science. The impact of the work of German mathematician GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ (1646-1716) on modern science and technology is all but incalculable. His notation for infinitesimal calculus-which he developed independently of Newton-remains in use today, and his invention of binary counting is the basis for modern computing. He was a powerfully influential philosopher as well, and is still considered, alongside Descartes and Spinoza, one of the great 17th-century rationalists.

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547403715

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Theodicy by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Pdf

"Theodicy" is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz published in 1710, whose optimistic approach to the problem of evil is thought to have inspired Voltaire's "Candide". Much of the work consists of a response to the ideas of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle, with whom Leibniz carried on a debate for many years. The "Theodicy" tries to justify the apparent imperfections of the world by claiming that it is optimal among all possible worlds. It must be the best possible and most balanced world, because it was created by an all powerful and all knowing God, who would not choose to create an imperfect world if a better world could be known to him or possible to exist. In effect, apparent flaws that can be identified in this world must exist in every possible world, because otherwise God would have chosen to create the world that excluded those flaws. Leibniz distinguishes three forms of evil: moral, physical, and metaphysical. Moral evil is sin, physical evil is pain, and metaphysical evil is limitation. God permits moral and physical evil for the sake of greater goods, and metaphysical evil is unavoidable since any created universe must necessarily fall short of God's absolute perfection.

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:8596547781097

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Essays of Theodicy by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Pdf

"Theodicy" is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz published in 1710, whose optimistic approach to the problem of evil is thought to have inspired Voltaire's "Candide". Much of the work consists of a response to the ideas of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle, with whom Leibniz carried on a debate for many years. The "Theodicy" tries to justify the apparent imperfections of the world by claiming that it is optimal among all possible worlds. It must be the best possible and most balanced world, because it was created by an all powerful and all knowing God, who would not choose to create an imperfect world if a better world could be known to him or possible to exist. In effect, apparent flaws that can be identified in this world must exist in every possible world, because otherwise God would have chosen to create the world that excluded those flaws. Leibniz distinguishes three forms of evil: moral, physical, and metaphysical. Moral evil is sin, physical evil is pain, and metaphysical evil is limitation. God permits moral and physical evil for the sake of greater goods, and metaphysical evil is unavoidable since any created universe must necessarily fall short of God's absolute perfection.

Author : Mehmet Karabela
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000369847

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Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes by Mehmet Karabela Pdf

Early modern Protestant scholars closely engaged with Islamic thought in more ways than is usually recognized. Among Protestants, Lutheran scholars distinguished themselves as the most invested in the study of Islam and Muslim culture. Mehmet Karabela brings the neglected voices of post-Reformation theologians, primarily German Lutherans, into focus and reveals their rigorous engagement with Islamic thought. Inspired by a global history approach to religious thought, Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes offers new sources to broaden the conventional interpretation of the Reformation beyond a solely European Christian phenomenon. Based on previously unstudied dissertations, disputations, and academic works written in Latin in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Karabela analyzes three themes: Islam as theology and religion; Islamic philosophy and liberal arts; and Muslim sects (Sunni and Shi‘a). This book provides analyses and translations of the Latin texts as well as brief biographies of the authors. These texts offer insight into the Protestant perception of Islamic thought for scholars of religious studies and Islamic studies as well as for general readers. Examining the influence of Islamic thought on the construction of the Protestant identity after the Reformation helps us to understand the role of Islam in the evolution of Christianity.

Author : Lloyd Strickland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472580641

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Leibniz on God and Religion by Lloyd Strickland Pdf

Bringing together Leibniz's writings on God and religion for the very first time, Leibniz on God and Religion: A Reader reflects the growing importance now placed on Leibniz's philosophical theology. This reader features a wealth of material, from journal articles and book reviews published in Leibniz's lifetime to private notes and essays, as well as items from his correspondence. Organised thematically into the following sections, this reader captures the changes in Leibniz's thinking over the course of his career: The Catholic Demonstrations The existence and nature of God Reason and faith Ethics and the love of God The Bible Miracles and mysteries The churches and their doctrines Grace and predestination Sin, evil, and theodicy The afterlife Non-Christian religions In preparing this reader, Strickland has returned to Leibniz's original manuscripts to ensure accurate translations of key texts, the majority of which have not been available in English before. The reader also contains a number of texts previously unpublished in any form. Alongside the translations, this reader contains an introductory essay, explanatory notes on all of the texts, and suggestions for further reading. This valuable sourcebook enables students of all levels to achieve a well-rounded understanding of Leibniz's philosophical theology.

Author : Paul Maxwell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781978704244

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The Trauma of Doctrine by Paul Maxwell Pdf

The Trauma of Doctrine is a theological investigation into the effects of abuse trauma upon the experience of Christian faith, the psychological mechanics of these effects, their resonances with Christian Scripture, and neglected research-informed strategies for cultivating post-traumatic resilience. Paul Maxwell examines the effect that the Calvinist belief can have upon the traumatized Christian who negatively internalizes its superlative doctrines of divine control and human moral corruption, and charts a way toward meaningful spiritual recovery.

Author : Jared Hickman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190272586

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Black Prometheus by Jared Hickman Pdf

The Prometheus myth, for several reasons became a crucial site for conceptualizing human liberation in the immanent space of a finite globe structured by white domination and black slavery. The titan's defiant theft of fire from the regnant gods was translated through a high-stakes racial coding either as an 'African' revolt against the cosmic status quo that augured a pure autonomy, a black revolutionary immanence against which idealist philosophers like Hegel defined their projects and slaveholders defended their lives and positions. Or as a 'Caucasian' reflection of the divine power evidently working in favor of Euro-Christian civilization that transmuted the naked egoism of conquest into a righteous heteronomy-Euro-Christian civilization's mobilization by the Absolute or its internalization of a transcendent principle of universal Reason.

Author : Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752320473

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A Theodicy by Albert Taylor Bledsoe Pdf

Reproduction of the original: A Theodicy by Albert Taylor Bledsoe

Author : Eduard von Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : UCAL:B3360476

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Philosophy of the Unconscious: Metaphysics of the unconscious by Eduard von Hartmann Pdf

V.1 The class of books to which the "Philosophy of the Unconscious" belongs is all but unrepresented in our literature, but the absence of similar home-productions can no longer be held to imply either an inability to comprehend their scope or an indifference to their results. To what shall we attribute the welcome accorded of late to certain reproductions and elucidations of the master-works of modern Transcendentalism, if not to the awakening of a long-repressed desire to re-examine the foundations of a spiritual fabric, for whose stability an instinctive confidence alone made answer? To many two attitudes of mind have become insupportable--that of total unconcern about fundamental truth, and that of unthinking acquiescence in the admission of merely juxtaposed and uncommunicating spheres of positive knowledge and impenetrable nescience. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved).

Author : Eduard von Hartmann
Publisher : K. Paul Trench Trubner & Company Limited
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : UOM:39015026465719

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Philosophy of the Unconscious by Eduard von Hartmann Pdf

Author : Albert Taylor Bledsoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : God
ISBN : UOMDLP:afz0585:0001.001

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A Theodicy by Albert Taylor Bledsoe Pdf

Author : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:4064066058302

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Theodicy by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Pdf

"Theodicy" is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz published in 1710, whose optimistic approach to the problem of evil is thought to have inspired Voltaire's "Candide". Much of the work consists of a response to the ideas of the French philosopher Pierre Bayle, with whom Leibniz carried on a debate for many years. The "Theodicy" tries to justify the apparent imperfections of the world by claiming that it is optimal among all possible worlds. It must be the best possible and most balanced world, because it was created by an all powerful and all knowing God, who would not choose to create an imperfect world if a better world could be known to him or possible to exist. In effect, apparent flaws that can be identified in this world must exist in every possible world, because otherwise God would have chosen to create the world that excluded those flaws. Leibniz distinguishes three forms of evil: moral, physical, and metaphysical. Moral evil is sin, physical evil is pain, and metaphysical evil is limitation. God permits moral and physical evil for the sake of greater goods, and metaphysical evil is unavoidable since any created universe must necessarily fall short of God's absolute perfection.

Author : Eduard von Hartmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : OSU:32435019053826

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Philosophy of the Unconscious by Eduard von Hartmann Pdf