On the Existence and Relevance of God

✍ Scribed by Clement Dore (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Leaves: 144
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

The main aims of this book are to establish that it is rational to believe that God exists; to show how God relates to morality; and to show how God is causally connected to his creation. Dore defends a version of the ontological argument and refutes the atheistic argument from suffering. He argues that only God can account for the overridingness of morality. He also treats ethical supernaturalism as a type of ethical attitude theory, showing how it is related to secular theories which base valid judgments of moral goodness and evil on pro and con attitudes. He illlustrates precisely how, given scientific explanation, theistic explanation of the empirical universe can get a foothold. His method is to adopt and defend a version of theistic (Berkeley-like) phenomenalism and, in that connection, a pragmatic-instrumentalist interpretation of scientific theories.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
The Concept of Supreme Perfection: Some Arguments for God’s Existence....Pages 1-16
The Argument from Suffering I....Pages 17-25
The Argument from Suffering II....Pages 27-40
How God Grounds Morality I....Pages 41-49
How God Grounds Morality II....Pages 51-59
How to Apply the Ideal Observer Theory: The Controversy over Artificial Contraception and Abortion....Pages 61-78
Causal Realism and the Egocentric Predicament....Pages 79-104
Theistic Phenomenalism: An Alternative Causal Theory of Perception....Pages 105-121
Back Matter....Pages 123-143

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Religion

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