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Contingency and Freedom

Author : Anthonie Vos Jaczn.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401582750
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Contingency and Freedom written by Anthonie Vos Jaczn. and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the seventies, there was a revival of systematic philosophy in general and of ontology in particular. At the same time, especially in Anglo-Saxon thinking, systematic philosophy interacted very creatively with the history of medieval philosophy. It seems to us that the work of John Duns Scotus (1266-1308) could substantially benefit these develop ments. Not only this, but his works cries out to be developed across the whole spectrum of theology -that science which, in the Middle Ages, ruled all others ('regina scientiarum'). This book is the outcome of several years of scholarship and friend ship during which, guided by Dr. A. Vos, we have studied the work of Scotus. Our research group is connected to the Theological Faculty of Utrecht and to the Dutch Franciscan Study Centre (Stichting Francis caans Studiecentrum). This study presents a translation and commentary of Lectura I 39, which, in our view, is noteable as one of the key texts in the history of systematic theology and philosophy. In this book we have used specialist language and argumentation, but at the same time have taken pains to make it useful to a circle of in terested readers wider than simply that of those well-versed in medieval scholasticism. In this way, we hope to present the difficult but instruc tive work of the 'subtle master' ('doctor subtilis') in such a way as to make it attractive to other scholars and students in theology and philoso phy.

Contingency and Freedom

Author : Anthonie Vos Jaczn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789401582766
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Contingency and Freedom written by Anthonie Vos Jaczn and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz

Author : Maria Rosa Antognazza
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks
ISBN 13 : 0199744726
Total Pages : 825 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Leibniz written by Maria Rosa Antognazza and published by Oxford Handbooks. This book was released on 2018 with total page 825 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a uniquely comprehensive, systematic, and up-to-date appraisal of Leibniz's thought thematically organized around its diverse but interrelated aspects. By pulling together the best specialized work in the many domains to which Leibniz contributed, its ambition is to offer the most rounded picture of Leibniz's endeavors currently available.

Contingency and freedom

Author : John Duns Scotus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Contingency and freedom written by John Duns Scotus and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Divine Will and Human Choice

Author : Richard A. Muller
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493406701
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Divine Will and Human Choice written by Richard A. Muller and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fresh study from an internationally respected scholar of the Reformation and post-Reformation eras shows how the Reformers and their successors analyzed and reconciled the concepts of divine sovereignty and human freedom. Richard Muller argues that traditional Reformed theology supported a robust theory of an omnipotent divine will and human free choice and drew on a tradition of Western theological and philosophical discussion. The book provides historical perspective on a topic of current interest and debate and offers a corrective to recent discussions.

Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel

Author : C. A. Longhurst
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303081999X
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Unamuno, Berdyaev, Marcel written by C. A. Longhurst and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to examine the mutual interplay between existentialism and Christian belief as seen through the work of three existentialist thinkers who were also committed Christians - a Spaniard (Miguel de Unamuno), a Russian (Nikolai Berdyaev), and a Frenchman (Gabriel Marcel). They are compared with each other and with leading non-religious existentialists. The major themes studied include reason, freedom, the self, belief, hope, love, suffering, and immortality.

Contingency and Freedom in Leibniz' Metaphysics

Author : Eric Sotnak
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Contingency and Freedom in Leibniz' Metaphysics written by Eric Sotnak and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Theism and Ultimate Explanation

Author : Timothy O'Connor
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444350889
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Theism and Ultimate Explanation written by Timothy O'Connor and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity

Author : Richard Rorty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521367813
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity written by Richard Rorty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-02-24 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the social or political goals of liberalism. In fact Rorty believes that it is literature not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. A truly liberal culture, acutely aware of its own historical contingency, would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. The book has a characteristically wide range of reference from philosophy through social theory to literary criticism. It confirms Rorty's status as a uniquely subtle theorist, whose writing will prove absorbing to academic and nonacademic readers alike.

Contingency, Time, and Possibility

Author : Pascal Massie
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739149318
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Contingency, Time, and Possibility written by Pascal Massie and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we are to distinguish mere non-being from that which is not, yet may be, from that which was not, yet could have been, or from that which will not be, yet could become, we are committed in some way to grant being to possibilities. The possible is not actual; yet it is not nothing. What then could it be? What ontological status could it possess? In Contingency, Time, and Possibility: An Essay on Aristotle and Duns Scotus, Pascal Massie opens these questions by combining two approaches: First, an original inquiry that analyses the notions of chance, fate, event, contradiction, and so forth, and suggests that the distinction between potency and act arises from a confrontation with the impossible. Second, a historical inquiry that focuses on Aristotle and Duns Scotus, two key figures contributing to a fundamental transformation in the history of Western ontology; namely, the transition from a metaphysics of nature (Aristotle) to a metaphysics of the will (Scotus). In doing so, this book departs from the prevailing interpretation of the history of modal logic according to which Scotus rejected the principle of plenitude attributed to Aristotle and replaced the ancient diachronic theory of possibilities with a synchronic one, thereby contributing to a Opossible worldOs semantics.O Rather, Massie argues that in its proper ontological import, the question of possibility concerns the limit between being and non-being and that this limit must be thought in terms of temporality. With Scotus, however, a radical shift occurs. Possibilities are understood in terms of will, creation, omnipotence, and transcending freedom. As such, they belong to the realm of what is supremely actual (i.e., superabundant activity). What used to be understood as a lesser degree of being (the quasi non-being of uninformed matter and mere possibilities) becomes the mark of omnipotence.

Reformed Thought on Freedom

Author : Willem J. van Asselt
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Reformed Thought on Freedom written by Willem J. van Asselt and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the concept of human freedom in the work of six early modern Reformers.

Leibniz's Concept of Freedom

Author : Lee William Stenquist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Leibniz's Concept of Freedom written by Lee William Stenquist and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, Freedom, and Contingency

Author : Andreas J. Beck
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004504397
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Gisbertus Voetius (1589–1676) on God, Freedom, and Contingency written by Andreas J. Beck and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on Gisbertus Voetius’s views on God, freedom, and contingency, Andreas J. Beck offers the first monograph in English that is entirely devoted to the theology of this leading figure of early modern Reformed scholasticism.

Sartre on Contingency

Author : Mabogo Percy More
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538157055
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Sartre on Contingency written by Mabogo Percy More and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of antiblack racism has a long history in the world, with as long a history of thinkers writing and theorizing against it. Few philosophers have opposed institutionalized racialism as vehemently as Jean-Paul Sartre, both in his intellectual work and in his political action. This book argues that not only does a relationship exists between Sartre’s existentialist philosophy and antiracism but also, more profoundly, that it is precisely his existential ontology that informs his anti-racist social and political commitments. He sought to examine the complexity of our existence as conscious bodies and thus provides the ontological basis for understanding the situation of a black person in an antiblack world. This book is about how Sartre’s philosophy – especially his early writings – can be applied to address the problem of racism against black people. It argues that among the many concepts in Sartre’s work that are useful in understanding the problem of racism against black people, the philosophical notion of contingency is one of the most significant. Contingency in Sartre is the view that whatever exists, need not exist, and that therefore it can be changed; that the fact that one is born white or black without their choice, has no moral weight at all in treating others as though they are responsible for what they are. In this book Mabogo More contends that through Sartre’s philosophical notion of contingency, he provides us with the ammunition to understand and deal with racism broadly, and antiblack racism in particular.

Freedom of the Will

Author : Jonathan Edwards
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom of the Will written by Jonathan Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science

Author : Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319673785
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Contingency and Natural Order in Early Modern Science written by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume considers contingency as a historical category resulting from the combination of various intellectual elements – epistemological, philosophical, material, as well as theological and, broadly speaking, intellectual. With contributions ranging from fields as diverse as the histories of physics, astronomy, astrology, medicine, mechanics, physiology, and natural philosophy, it explores the transformation of the notion of contingency across the late-medieval, Renaissance, and the early modern period. Underpinned by a necessitated vision of nature, seventeenth century mechanism widely identified apparent natural irregularities with the epistemological limits of a certain explanatory framework. However, this picture was preceded by, and in fact emerged from, a widespread characterization of contingency as an ontological trait of nature, typical of late-Scholastic and Renaissance science. On these bases, this volume shows how epistemological categories, which are preconditions of knowledge as “historically-situated a priori” and, seemingly, self-evident, are ultimately rooted in time. Contingency is intrinsic to scientific practice. Whether observing the behaviour of a photon, diagnosing a patient, or calculating the orbit of a distant planet, scientists face the unavoidable challenge of dealing with data that differ from their models and expectations. However, epistemological categories are not fixed in time. Indeed, there is something fundamentally different in the way an Aristotelian natural philosopher defined a wonder or a “monstrous” birth as “contingent”, a modern scientist defines the unexpected result of an experiment, and a quantum physicist the behavior of a photon. Although to each inquirer these instances appeared self-evidently contingent, each also employs the concept differently.

Contingency in International Law

Author : Ingo Venzke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192652907
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Contingency in International Law written by Ingo Venzke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book poses a question that is deceptive in its simplicity: could international law have been otherwise? Today, there is hardly a serious account left that would consider the path of international law to be necessary, and that would refute the possibility of a different law altogether. But behind every possibility of the past stands a reason why the law developed as it did. Only with a keen sense of why things turned out the way they did is it possible to argue about how the law could plausibly have turned out differently. The search for contingency in international law is often motivated, as it is in this volume, by a refusal to resign to the present state of affairs. By recovering past possibilities, this volume aims to inform projects of transformative legal change for the future. The book situates that search for contingency theoretically and carries it into practice across many fields, with chapters discussing human rights and armed conflict, migrants and refugees, the sea and natural resources, foreign investments and trade. In doing so, it shows how politically charged questions about contingency have always been.