Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs write by Joseph C. Schmid. This book was released on 2022-11-29. Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book critically assesses arguments for the existence of the God of classical theism, develops an innovative account of objects’ persistence, and defends new arguments against classical theism. The authors engage the following classical theistic proofs: Aquinas’s First Way, Aquinas’s De Ente argument, and Feser’s Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, Augustinian, Thomistic, and Rationalist proofs. The authors also provide the first systematic treatment of the ‘existential inertia thesis’. By connecting the thesis to relativity theory and recent developments in the philosophy of physics, and by developing a variety of novel existential-inertia-friendly explanations of persistence, they mount a formidable new case against classical theistic proofs. Finally, they defend new arguments against classical theism based on abstract objects and changing divine knowledge. The text appeals to students, researchers, and others interested in classical theistic proofs, the existence and nature of God, and the ultimate explanations of persistence, change, and contingency.
Five Proofs of the Existence of God
Five Proofs of the Existence of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Five Proofs of the Existence of God write by Edward Feser. This book was released on 2017-08-25. Five Proofs of the Existence of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book provides 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, the Neo-Platonic, the Augustinian, the Thomistic, and the Rationalist. It also offers a thorough 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. Finally, it answers at length all of the objections that have been leveled against these proofs. This work provides as ambitious and complete a defense of traditional natural theology as is currently in print. 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. It thereby serves as a refutation both of atheism and of the fideism that gives aid and comfort to atheism.
Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities
Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities write by Jeanine Diller. This book was released on 2013-06-13. Models of God and Alternative Ultimate Realities available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The envisioned volume is a collection of recent essays about the philosophical exploration, critique and comparison of (a) the major philosophical models of God, gods and other ultimate realities implicit in the world’s philosophical schools and religions, and of (b) the ideas of such models and doing such modeling per se. The aim is to identify exactly what a model of ultimate reality is; create a comprehensive and accessible collection of extant models; and determine how best, philosophically, to model ultimate reality, if possible and desirable.
Modern Religious Cults and Movements
Modern Religious Cults and Movements - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modern Religious Cults and Movements write by Gaius Glenn Atkins. This book was released on 1923. Modern Religious Cults and Movements available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking
Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking write by Hagi Kenaan. This book was released on 2011-08-13. Philosophy's Moods: The Affective Grounds of Thinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Philosophy's Moods is a collection of original essays interrogating the inseparable bond between mood and philosophical thinking. What is the relationship between mood and thinking in philosophy? In what sense are we always already philosophizing from within a mood? What kinds of mood are central for shaping the space of philosophy? What is the philosophical imprint of Aristotle’s wonder, Kant’s melancholy, Kierkegaard’s anxiety or Nietzsche's shamelessness? Philosophy's Moods invites its readers to explore the above questions through diverse methodological perspectives. The collection includes twenty-one contributions by internationally renowned scholars as well as younger and emerging voices. In pondering the place of the subjective and personal roots that thinking is typically called to overcome, the book challenges and articulates an alternative to a predominant tendency in philosophy to view the theoretical content and the affective side of thought as opposed to one another.
