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Ontological arguments are one of the main classes of arguments for the existence of God, and have been influential from the Middle Ages right up until the present time. This accessible volume offers a comprehensive survey and assessment of them, starting with a sequence of chapters charting their history - from Anselm and Aquinas, via Descartes, Leibniz, Kant and Hegel, to Gödel, Plantinga, Lewis and Tichý. This is followed by chapters on the most important topics to have emerged in the discussion of ontological arguments: the relationship between conceivability and possibility, the charge that ontological arguments beg the question, and the nature of existence. The volume as a whole shows clearly how these arguments emerged and developed, how we should think about them, and why they remain important today.

God --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Proof, Ontological.

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God --- Dieu --- Proof, Ontological. --- Existence --- Preuve ontologique --- Anselm, --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Proof, Ontological

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God --- Dieu --- Proof, Ontological. --- Existence --- Preuve ontologique --- Anselm, --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Proof, Ontological --- Anselmus Cantuariensis

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Descartes' Meditations is one of the first texts that a philosophy student will study, and one that many come back to time and again. Rather than simply telling the reader what to think, Meditations invites us to take a philosophical journey. This book prepares readers for that journey, helping them to engage with each of the meditations and suggesting ways through the more difficult passages. This guide also offers students a fresh approach by bringing to life the path of self-discovery encapsulated in the work, while maintaining the emphasis on metaphysics. By focusing on what the text itsel

First philosophy. --- God --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Metaphysics --- Proof, Ontological. --- Descartes, René, --- Descartes, Rene,

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The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today and is thought by most Christian theologians to be incompatible with Christian faith. This book argues that, on the contrary, there are reasons of faith why in principle the existence of God should be thought rationally demonstrable and that it is worthwhile revisiting the theology of Thomas Aquinas to see why this is so. The book further suggests that philosophical objections to proofs of God's existence rely upon an attenuated and impoverished conception of reason which theologians of all monotheistic traditions might wish to reject. Denys Turner proposes that on a broader and deeper conception of it, human rationality is open to the 'sacramental shape' of creation as such and in its exercise of rational proof of God it in some way participates in that sacramentality of all things.

God --- Dieu --- Proof, Ontological. --- Existence --- Preuve ontologique --- Ontological argument --- Ontology --- Proof, Ontological --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- God - Proof, Ontological.