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Necessary Existence

Author : Alexander R. Pruss

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 232 pages

File Size : 41,99 MB

Release : 2018-02-09

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0191063886

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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.



Theism and Ultimate Explanation

Author : Timothy O'Connor

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 193 pages

File Size : 29,50 MB

Release : 2012-02-20

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 1444350889

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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



Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing

Author : Daniel D. De Haan

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 442 pages

File Size : 48,33 MB

Release : 2020-08-10

Category : History

ISBN : 9004434526

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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.



Necessary Beings

Author : Bob Hale

Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA

Page : 309 pages

File Size : 20,15 MB

Release : 2013-09-19

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0199669570

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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.



Leibniz, God and Necessity

Author : Michael V. Griffin

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 209 pages

File Size : 29,36 MB

Release : 2013

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0521117089

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This book presents a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz which grounds modal concepts in theology.



Maximal God

Author : Yujin Nagasawa

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 50,87 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0198758685

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Yujin Nagasawa presents a new, stronger version of perfect being theism, the conception of God as the greatest possible being. Although perfect being theism is the most common form of monotheism in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition its truth has been disputed by philosophers and theologians for centuries. Nagasawa proposes a new, game-changing defence of perfect being theism by developing what he calls the 'maximal concept of God'. Perfect being theists typically maintain that God is an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent being; according to Nagasawa, God should be understood rather as a being that has the maximal consistent set of knowledge, power, and benevolence. Nagasawa argues that once we accept the maximal concept we can establish perfect being theism on two grounds. First, we can refute nearly all existing arguments against perfect being theism simultaneously. Second, we can construct a novel, strengthened version of the modal ontological argument for perfect being theism. Nagasawa concludes that the maximal concept grants us a unified defence of perfect being theism that is highly effective and economical.



Interpreting Avicenna

Author : Peter Adamson

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 313 pages

File Size : 24,63 MB

Release : 2013-07-04

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0521190738

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



The Existence Principle

Author : Q.B. Gibson

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 44,88 MB

Release : 1998-07-31

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0792351886

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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.



الشفاء: الالهيات

Author : Avicenna

Publisher : FARMS

Page : 932 pages

File Size : 45,32 MB

Release : 2005

Category : Islamic philosophy

ISBN :

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Within this emanative scheme we encounter some of the basic ideas of Avicenna's religious and political philosophy, including his discussion of the divine attributes, divine providence, the Hereafter, and the ideal, "virtuous" city with its philosopher-prophet as the recipient and conveyer of the revealed law, a human link between the celestial and the terrestrial worlds."--BOOK JACKET.



Rethinking the Ontological Argument

Author : Daniel A. Dombrowski

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 12 pages

File Size : 41,3 MB

Release : 2006-05-29

Category : 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.