The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz
Author : William L. Craig
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2001-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579107877
Author : William L. Craig
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 2001-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579107877
Author : William Lane Craig
Publisher : Springer
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 1980-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 134904993X
Author : William Craig
Publisher :
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,87 MB
Release : 1986
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Author : Emanuel Rutten
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 15,37 MB
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ISBN : 9081960806
Ever since Plato, philosophers have developed rational arguments for the existence of God. In the last decades the philosophical interest in these arguments has grown again significantly. In this book cosmological arguments are investigated. A cosmological argument derives the existence of God from the fact that there exist caused things. In the first part of this book the author argues that these arguments show that it is plausible that the cosmos was brought about by a necessarily existing conscious, free being. However, as is shown as well, it does not follow that this being is also the first cause of the whole of reality, something typically said of God. In the second part of the book a new argument for the existence of a first cause is presented, based on the premises of atomism and causalism. Subsequently, the author proposes a new modal-epistemic argument for the existence of a conscious, free being who is the first cause of reality. Objections to both new arguments are evaluated and refuted. The book concludes with the observation that these arguments can be combined with cosmological arguments in order to arrive at a renewed case for theism.
Author : Michael Almeida
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 10,16 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108456920
The book discusses the structure, content, and evaluation of cosmological arguments. The introductory chapter investigates features essential to cosmological arguments. Traditionally, cosmological arguments are distinguished by their appeal to change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. But none of these is in fact essential to the formulation of cosmological arguments. Chapters I - III present a critical discussion of traditional Thomistic, Kalam, and Leibnizian cosmological arguments, noting various advantages and disadvantages of these approaches. Chapter IV offers an entirely new approach to the cosmological argument-the approach of theistic modal realism. The proper explananda of cosmological arguments on this approach is not change, causation, contingency or objective becoming in the world. The proper explananda is the totality of metaphysical reality-all actualia and all possibilia. The result is the most compelling and least objectionable version of the cosmological argument.
Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521367691
The most comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought.
Author : John F. Wippel
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813218632
This volume gathers studies by prominent scholars and philosophers about the question how have major figures from the history of philosophy, and some contemporary philosophers, addressed "the ultimate why question": why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?
Author : Alexander R. Pruss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139455095
The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) says that all contingent facts must have explanation. In this 2006 volume, which was the first on the topic in the English language in nearly half a century, Alexander Pruss examines the substantive philosophical issues raised by the Principle Reason. Discussing various forms of the PSR and selected historical episodes, from Parmenides, Leibnez, and Hume, Pruss defends the claim that every true contingent proposition must have an explanation against major objections, including Hume's imaginability argument and Peter van Inwagen's argument that the PSR entails modal fatalism. Pruss also provides a number of positive arguments for the PSR, based on considerations as different as the metaphysics of existence, counterfactuals and modality, negative explanations, and the everyday applicability of the PSR. Moreover, Pruss shows how the PSR would advance the discussion in a number of disparate fields, including meta-ethics and the philosophy of mathematics.
Author : William L. Craig
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2000-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579104649
Is the Christian message of Jesus Christ and his resurrection true? Using ten lines of historical evidence, Dr. Craig defends the probability that Jesus was resurrected following his crucifixion. He examines the origin of the Christian movement, and more provocative subjects, such as the Shroud of Turin, parapsychological phenomena and hallucinations.
Author : Jordan Howard Sobel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 22,78 MB
Release : 2003-11-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1139449982
This is a wide-ranging 2004 book about arguments for and against beliefs in God. This book will be a valuable resource for philosophers of religion and theologians and will interest logicians and mathematicians as well.