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. Yet, despite its distinct originality, philosophers have mostly avoided the question of what modal concepts the argument uses, and whether Anselm's metaphysics entitles him to use them. Here, Brian Leftow sets out Anselm's modal metaphysics. He argues that Anselm has an "absolute", "broadly logical", or "metaphysical" modal concept, and that his metaphysics provides acceptable truth makers for claims in this modality. He shows that his modal argument is committed (in effect) to the Brouwer system of modal logic, and defends the claim that Brouwer is part of the logic of "absolute" or "metaphysical" modality. He also defends Anselm's premise that God would exist with absolute necessity against all extant objections, providing new arguments in support of it and ultimately defending all but one premise of Anselm's best argument for God's existence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 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