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Author | : Daniel A. Dombrowski |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 2006-05-29 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1139457144 |
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In recent years, the ontological argument and theistic metaphysics have been criticised by philosophers working in both the analytic and continental traditions. Responses to these criticisms have primarily come from philosophers who make use of the traditional, and problematic, concept of God. In this volume, Daniel A. Dombrowski defends the ontological argument against its contemporary critics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or process concept of God, thereby strengthening the case for a contemporary theistic metaphysics. Relying on the thought of Charles Hartshorne, he builds on Hartshorne's crucial distinction between divine existence and divine actuality, which enables neoclassical defenders of the ontological argument to avoid the familiar criticism that the argument moves illegitimately from an abstract concept to concrete reality. His argument, thus, avoids the problems inherent in the traditional concept of God as static.
Author | : Daniel A. Dombrowski |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780511225888 |
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Author | : Richard Campbell |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 547 |
Release | : 2018-07-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004363661 |
Download Rethinking Anselm's Arguments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book re-examines Anselm’s famous arguments for the existence of God. It demonstrates how he validly deduces from plausible premises that God exists most truly of all. The standard criticisms are shown to be based on misreading the text.
Author | : Graham Oppy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1996-01-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521481205 |
Download Ontological Arguments and Belief in God Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is a unique contribution to the philosophy of religion. It offers a comprehensive discussion of one of the most famous arguments for the existence of God: the ontological argument. The author provides and analyzes a critical taxonomy of those versions of the argument that have been advanced in recent philosophical literature, as well as of those historically important versions found in the work of St. Anselm, Descartes, Leibniz, Hegel and others.
Author | : Graham Oppy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2018-11-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107123631 |
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An accessible and comprehensive examination of ontological arguments, their history and their importance.
Author | : Robert Campbell Roberts |
Publisher | : Mercer University Press |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780865542280 |
Download Faith, Reason, and History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Miguel Astor-Aguilera |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2018-10-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351356755 |
Download Rethinking Relations and Animism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Personhood and relationality have re-animated debate in and between many disciplines. We are in the midst of a simultaneous "ontological turn", a "(re)turn to things" and a "relational turn", and also debating a "new animism". It is increasingly recognised that the boundaries between the "natural" and "social" sciences are of heuristic value but might not adequately describe reality of a multi-species world. Following rich and provocative dialogues between ethnologists and Indigenous experts, relations between the received knowledge of Western Modernity and that of people who dwell and move within different ontologies have shifted. Reflection on human relations with the larger-than-human world can no longer rely on the outdated assumption that "nature" and "cultures" already accurately describe the lineaments of reality. The chapters in this volume advance debates about relations between humans and things, between scholars and others, and between Modern and Indigenous ontologies. They consider how terms in diverse communities might hinder or help express, evidence and explore improved ways of knowing and being in the world. Contributors to this volume bring different perspectives and approaches to bear on questions about animism, personhood, materiality, and relationality. They include anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnographers, and scholars of religion.
Author | : Tim Mulgan |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2015-10-22 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0191066567 |
Download Purpose in the Universe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Two familiar worldviews dominate Western philosophy: materialist atheism and the benevolent God of the Abrahamic faiths. Tim Mulgan explores a third way. Ananthropocentric Purposivism claims that there is a cosmic purpose, but human beings are irrelevant to it. Purpose in the Universe develops a philosophical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism that it is at least as strong as the case for either theism or atheism. The book borrows traditional theist arguments to defend a cosmic purpose. These include cosmological, teleological, ontological, meta-ethical, and mystical arguments. It then borrows traditional atheist arguments to reject a human-centred purpose. These include arguments based on evil, diversity, and the scale of the universe. Mulgan also highlights connections between morality and metaphysics, arguing that evaluative premises play a crucial and underappreciated role in metaphysical debates about the existence of God, and Ananthropocentric Purposivism mutually supports an austere consequentialist morality based on objective values. He concludes that, by drawing on a range of secular and religious ethical traditions, a non-human-centred cosmic purpose can ground a distinctive human morality. Our moral practices, our view of the moral universe, and our moral theory are all transformed if we shift from the familiar choice between a universe without meaning and a universe where humans matter to the less self-aggrandising thought that, while it is about something, the universe is not about us.
Author | : Richard Campbell |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2021-11-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004184619 |
Download A Cosmological Reformulation of Anselm’s Proof That God Exists Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this book, Richard Campbell reformulates Anselm’s proof to show that factual evidence confirmed by modern cosmology validly implies that God exists. Anselm’s proof, which was never the “ontological argument” attributed to him, emerges as engaging with current philosophical issues concerning existence and scientific explanation.
Author | : Julie Zahle |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014-06-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3319053442 |
Download Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of papers investigates the most recent debates about individualism and holism in the philosophy of social science. The debates revolve mainly around two issues: firstly, whether social phenomena exist sui generis and how they relate to individuals. This is the focus of discussions between ontological individualists and ontological holists. Secondly, to what extent social scientific explanations may and should, focus on individuals and social phenomena respectively. This issue is debated amongst methodological holists and methodological individualists. In social science and philosophy, both issues have been intensively discussed and new versions of the dispute have appeared just as new arguments have been advanced. At present, the individualism/holism debate is extremely lively and this book reflects the major positions and perspectives within the debate. This volume is also relevant to debates about two closely related issues in social science: the micro-macro debate and the agency-structure debate. This book presents contributions from key figures in both social science and philosophy, in the first such collection on this topic to be published since the 1970s.