Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defence of the hypothesis that there is a necessarily existing being capable of providing an ultimate foundation for the existence of all things.
Necessary existence
โ Scribed by Pruss, Alexander R.;Rasmussen, Joshua
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 232
- Edition
- New product edition
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
1: Introduction2: Metaphysical Possibility and Necessity3: An Argument from Contingency4: An Argument from Possible Causes5: From Possible Causes II6: From Modal Uniformity7: From Necessary Abstracta to Necessary Concreta8: The Argument from Perfections9: Arguments against a Necessary BeingAppendix: a Slew of Arguments
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