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Author : William L. Craig
Release : 2001-10-13
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz by : William L. Craig
Download or read book The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz written by William L. Craig. This book was released on 2001-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Craig
Release : 1986
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Book Synopsis The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz by : William Craig
Download or read book The Cosmological Argument from Plato to Leibniz written by William Craig. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emanuel Rutten
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Book Synopsis A Critical Assessment of Contemporary Cosmological Arguments by : Emanuel Rutten
Download or read book A Critical Assessment of Contemporary Cosmological Arguments written by Emanuel Rutten. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Gottfried Wilhelm Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Release : 2018-03-13
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Book Synopsis The Monadology by : Gottfried Wilhelm Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Download or read book The Monadology written by Gottfried Wilhelm Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. This book was released on 2018-03-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monadology (French: La Monadologie, 1714) is one of Gottfried Leibniz's best known works representing his later philosophy. It is a short text which sketches in some 90 paragraphs a metaphysics of simple substances, or monads. In it, he offers a new solution to mind and matter interaction by means of a pre-established harmony expressed as the 'Best of all possible worlds' form of optimism.
Author : Michael Almeida
Release : 2018-07-31
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Cosmological Arguments by : Michael Almeida
Download or read book Cosmological Arguments written by Michael Almeida. This book was released on 2018-07-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
