David F. Haight, Marjorie A. Haight

The Scandal of Reason

or Shadow of God

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Produktbeschreibung

By turning the classical arguments for God's existence on their head, David and Marjorie Haight present original arguments for the existence of the devil in order to reveal a cosmic 'God beyond Goddiness' or the God beyond good and evil, which reconciles Divinity with its Shadow.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 732
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1041g
• ISBN-13: 9780761827252
• ISBN-10: 0761827250
• Artikelnr.: 29505871

Autorenporträt

By David F. Haight and Marjorie A. Haight

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Devaluation of Being: First Impoverishment of Being
Second Impoverishment of Being
Third Impoverishment of Being
Fourth Impoverishment of Being Chapter 3 Conversation Between Anselm and the Fool: The Ontological Argument
Standard Objections and Replies
An Analogical Argument for the Devil
Is Existence a Perfection?
The Circle of Faith
Synopsis
Appendix Chapter 4 Devil Demonstrated Through Its Effects: Six Ways: Motion and Causality
Necessity, Contingency and Goodness
Demonic Teleology
Are All Arguments for God Petitios
No Fool-Proof God-Proof Exists Chapter 5 Dialogue Between Descartes and the Evil Genius: The Cartesian Circle
More Demon-strations
The Round Dance of Reason
Are All Statements of Existence Contingent? Infinity and Evil
Conclusion Chapter 6 The Problems of Evil and Time, or the Dialogue Continued Between Leibniz and the Evil Genius: The Question of Being
Being and Goodness
A Viable Theodicy
A Problem with Future Contingent Statements
How to Continue the Dialogue?
Hartshorne's Obje Chapter 7 An Absolute Theory of Relativity: A Meta-Physics of Consciousness
The Maya of Space/Time, that Which Is and Is Not
The Ages of the Ageless
The Once and Future Vision
Quod superius sicut quod inferius: As Above, So Below
Truth is Bea Chapter 8 Mathematics and the Good: Absolved or Purified Set-Theoretical Wholes
Set-Theoretical Reflection
Waiting for Gödel
Trans-Rational Thinking
Paradox Lust
Infinite Substance is Inexhaustible
Another Extended Footnote to Plato Chapter 9 Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds?: The Law of Continuity
The Monadology
Materia Prima
Pre-established Harmony
The Best of All Possible Worlds
Immaculate Perception Chapter 10 The It from the Bit (Itty Bitty) Fallacy: The Labyrinth of the Continuum
Squaring the Circle
Method of Exhaustion or Convergence
The Knotted Thread that Ties Up Loose Ends Chapter 11 Science is Not Without Presuppositions: Breaks in Spacetime or from Spacetime?
Living Space and Time
The Paradigm Paradigm
Memory Re-membered, Not Dis-membered
Back to the Future Chapter 12 The Revaluation of Being as Such: The Mystery of "Is" as Is
Mind-Body Mystery
Which Came First- the Computer or the Egghead?
Are Computers Conscious?
"Nature," Aeschylus said, "is stronger than science."
Meditative as Distinguished from Calcula Chapter 13 Surplus Meaning and Value: The Foundation of Analogy
The Divine or Golden Formula for Blending
Immediacy, or Participation, as the Final "Mediator"
The Richness of Language
The Path is Laid Out for Us Chapter 14 The Good Beyond Good and Evil, or the Transvaluation of Being: The Mystery of Good and Evil
"The Truth Shall Set You Free"
The Devil Revisited and Revised Chapter 15 Mirror, Mirror of the Fall: The Participation-Mystique of Good and Evil
The Mirror of Possibilities Chapter 16 Some Great Thing: A History of the Archetypal World
The Wheel of Life
The Apple of One's Eye
The Tragic Sense of Life
Poetic Madness
The Passion for Infinity
The Inside-Outside Story Chapter 17 Selective Bibliography Chapter 18 Index Chapter 19 About the Authors