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Book Synopsis A Cosmological Reformulation of Anselm’s Proof That God Exists by : Richard Campbell
Download or read book A Cosmological Reformulation of Anselm’s Proof That God Exists written by Richard Campbell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Understanding Anselm's Ontological Argument by : Guy Jackson
Download or read book Understanding Anselm's Ontological Argument written by Guy Jackson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anselm's ontological argument is one of the most fascinating, most controversial, and most misunderstood arguments in the entire history of Western thought. By centring the argument firmly in the Neoplatonic tradition within which Anselm was writing, Understanding Anselm's Ontological Argument sheds fresh light and clarity on this enigmatic piece of philosophy. It argues that, far from resting upon a fallacy or illegitimately attempting to define God into existence, Anselm's argument is a powerful and plausible philosophical proof, and deserves to be taken seriously as such. Written to be understandable for specialists and non-specialists alike, Understanding Anselm's Ontological Argument is ideal for scholars and researchers in philosophy of religion and philosophy in the Middle Ages (especially Neoplatonism) as well as for medievalists in general.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Anselm's Arguments by : Richard Campbell
Download or read book Rethinking Anselm's Arguments written by Richard Campbell and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Anselm's Discovery by : Charles Hartshorne
Download or read book Anselm's Discovery written by Charles Hartshorne and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Anselm, in his Ontological Argument (first advanced around 1070), make one of the greatest intellectual discoveries of all time, or did he merely fall into an interesting blunder?
Book Synopsis The Many-Faced Argument by : John Hick
Download or read book The Many-Faced Argument written by John Hick and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Many-Faced Argument presents a compilation of essays on the ontogical argument for the existence of God, covering responses to Anselm's position in the first half, and, in the second half, covering developments of the argument in the context of modern philosophy. Along with contibutions by editors Hick and McGill, other writers include Karl Barth, Andre Hayden, Anselm Stolz, Bertrand Russell, Jerome Shaffer, Gilbert Ryle, Aime Forest, Norman Malcolm, and Charles Hartshorne. While interest in the the ontological argument has arisen from various disciplines -- historical, theological and philosophical -- the purpose of this book is to bring these varied writings together so that scholars and students within each discipline may have contributions from other fields readily available.
Download or read book The Proof of God written by Larry Witham and published by Atlas & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stating the idea that the idea' and 'reality' of God were the same, Anselm of Bec provoked enormous controversy through his radical approach: rather than appealing to the Bible, church authority or the physical senses, Anselm employed the faculties of his mind to craft a method of logic that paved the way for modern thought. Larry Witham traces humans' modern conceptions of faith and reason back to Anselm's formidable claim. In an attempt to 'prove God', Anselm unleashed a raging medieval debate and this history, biography and philosophy further examines his statements.'
Download or read book The Existence of God written by John Hick and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1964 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The principal philosophical arguments on the existence of God are brought together here. From the ancient Greeks and Anselm to the present-day and Bertrand Russell, both sides are represented. First come the contributions of Western philosophers to the five arguments traditionally used to prove that God exists; then come the basic challenges to the them; and finally the recent writings that proble what it means to assert that God exists."--
Book Synopsis The Necessity of God by : R. T. Allen
Download or read book The Necessity of God written by R. T. Allen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Anselm's discovery by : Charles Hartsthorne
Download or read book Anselm's discovery written by Charles Hartsthorne and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Natural Proof for the Existence of God as Supernatural by : Ruud Schuurman
Download or read book A Natural Proof for the Existence of God as Supernatural written by Ruud Schuurman and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this booklet, I will first argue that God is supernatural, and then prove that, given that God is supernatural, God exists. Of course, we normally assume that, just because God is supernatural, we cannot prove God's existence. But we can. In fact, we can prove the existence of God based on the very fact that God is supernatural. And we can do so by natural means (as opposed to supernatural means, e.g., divine revelation). This results in the most solid proof because it does not derive God's existence from natural phenomena (e.g., the cosmos) or from concepts of God (e.g., the greatest that can be conceived), but directly from the fact that God is supernatural. The classical arguments for the existence of God (i.e., cosmological, teleological, and ontological arguments) cannot do this. In fact, they cannot even accommodate a God that is supernatural. So, given that God is supernatural, they cannot really argue for God at all. In the process, I will also prove that, given that God is supernatural, there cannot be more than one God. And I will explain the beauty of God as supernatural: That only a supernatural God truly qualifies as God. That only a supernatural God is truly infinite, supreme, greater-than-the-greatest. That only a supernatural God is truly perfect, i.e., complete and flawless, and that, if we try to turn God into something more than just supernatural, we thereby actually reduce God, turn God into just another natural thing, the worship of which is indeed idolatry. Finally, I cannot but hope that this may help you to attain salvation, divine union, enlightenment, liberation, wisdom, or whatever you call that which sets you free. Free from sin and the consequences of sin, from separation, from craving and ignorance and the pain it causes, from the cycle of birth and death and its suffering, or, to put it in somewhat plainer terms, from the stress that comes from being deceived by appearances.
Book Synopsis How to Think About God by : Mortimer J. Adler
Download or read book How to Think About God written by Mortimer J. Adler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-18 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Adler, in his discussion, extends and modernizes the argument for the existence of God developed by Aristotle and Aquinas. Without relying on faith, mysticism, or science (none of which, according to Dr. Adler, can prove or disprove the existence of God), he uses a rationalist argument to lead the reader to a point where he or she can see that the existence of God is not necessarily dependent upon a suspension of disbelief. Dr. Adler provides a nondogmatic exposition of the principles behind the belief that God, or some other supernatural cause, has to exist in some form. Through concise and lucid arguments, Dr. Adler shapes a highly emotional and often erratic conception of God into a credible and understandable concept for the lay person.
Book Synopsis Five Proofs for the Existence of God by : Edward Feser
Download or read book Five Proofs for the Existence of God written by Edward Feser and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five Proofs of the Existence of GodÊprovides a detailed, updated exposition and defense of five of the historically most important (but in recent years largely neglected) philosophical proofs of God's existence: the Aristotelian proof, the Neo-Platonic proof, the Augustinian proof, the Thomistic proof, and the Rationalist proof. Ê This book also offers a detailed treatment of each of the key divine attributes -- unity, simplicity, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience, perfect goodness, and so forth -- showing that they must be possessed by the God whose existence is demonstrated by the proofs.Ê Finally, it answers at length all of the objections that have been leveled against these proofs. Ê This book offers as ambitious and complete a defense of traditional natural theology as is currently in print.Ê Its aim is to vindicate the view of the greatest philosophers of the past -- thinkers like Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz, and many others -- that the existence of God can be established with certainty by way of purely rational arguments.Ê It thereby serves as a refutation both of atheism and of the fideism which gives aid and comfort to atheism. Ê
Book Synopsis God and Reason by : William Joseph Brosnan
Download or read book God and Reason written by William Joseph Brosnan and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Arguments For The Existence Of God by : John Hick
Download or read book Arguments For The Existence Of God written by John Hick and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1970-12-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proving God Exists written by Ken Levi and published by Ken Levi. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God is real. The evidence is solid and extensive. It’s not based on blind faith or wishful thinking, but on hard science. The starting point is to strip away layers of mysticism and superstition surrounding the question of a Supreme Being; then, to ask: what do we really mean by “God”? How can we describe Him? What evidence do we have such a Being exists? In addressing these questions, the book relies on physics and cosmology; on Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, String Theory, Black Hole Theory, Thermodynamics, Loop Quantum Gravity, and others. Ultimately, the scientific evidence leads to a provocative conclusion: the ubiquity of a Universal Mind.
Book Synopsis The Cosmological Arguments by : Donald R. Burrill
Download or read book The Cosmological Arguments written by Donald R. Burrill and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Plato, philosophers have been concerned with the cosmological arguments--those argument forms that take as their starting point some familiar aspect of the universe and go on to derive from it evidence for the existence of God. Aquinas, who gave clearest expression of the various paths such reasoning could follow, distinguished four: the arguments from motion, cause, contingency, and design. Separately or together, these have continued to fascinate philosophers and theologians--including many who are convinced that the conclusion is false--even in the face of modern scientific discoveries. In this volume, which presents a variety of philosophical positions from Plato to contemporary thinkers, the editor has chosen to treat the first three of Aquinas' forms together and devote a separate section to the teleological argument. --
Author :Richard James Campbell Publisher :Canberra : Faculty of Arts, Australian National University ISBN 13 : Total Pages :246 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis From Belief to Understanding by : Richard James Campbell
Download or read book From Belief to Understanding written by Richard James Campbell and published by Canberra : Faculty of Arts, Australian National University. This book was released on 1976 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
