A01=R. T. Allen
Absolute Presupposition
Anselm's Argument
Anselmian Tradition
Anselm’s Argument
Author_R. T. Allen
Bayeaux Tapestry
beings
Category=QD
Category=QRAB1
classical theism
contingency argument
Dialectical Expansion
Empty Hat
Empty Modality
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
Error Theory
Euclidian Triangles
Finite Beings
Finite Existence
Finite Persons
Finite World
God's Eternal Knowledge
God's Knowledge
God’s Eternal Knowledge
God’s Knowledge
Mere Tautology
metaphysics
Modal Axiom
modal logic
Necessarily Existing
necessary being
Non-exclusive Attribute
ontological necessity in metaphysics
Paul Helm
Perpetual Motion Machines
philosophy of religion
Posse Peccare
R.T. Allen
Robert Flint
Samkhya School
Valid Core
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- ISBN 9781138516441
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 12 Oct 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
