Brian Leftow

Anselm's Argument (eBook, PDF)

Divine Necessity

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Anselm of Canterbury gave the first "modal" ontological argument for God's existence. Here, Brian Leftow defends all premises of this argument save the claim that possibly God exists. He in particular defends the premise that God would exist with absolute or metaphysical necessity against all extant and some new objections, and provides new arguments for it. Leftow contends that Anselm's argument requires the Brouwer system of modal logic, and argues that this is part of the correct logic for "absolute," "broadly logical" or "metaphysical" modality. As part of making clear what Anselm's argument is, he contends that Anselm works with this kind of modality, and argues that Anselm provides adequate truthmakers for claims in this modality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192650887
• Artikelnr.: 63615494

Autorenporträt

Brian Leftow is the William P. Alston Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Rutgers University and an Emeritus Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. He was previously the Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Metaphysics
2: The Applications
3: The Problems
4: The Argument
5: Brouwer
6: Hume
7: Kant
8: Swinburne
9: The Parallel Argument
10: Imagining Nothing
11: Thinking of Nothing
12: Five More Objections
13: Perfect Being Contingency?
14: Essence Options
15: Other Non-Concreta
16: Contingency Concluded
17: The Less-Maker Argument
18: Envoi