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Rethinking the Ontological Argument

Rethinking the Ontological Argument

A Neoclassical Theistic Response

by Daniel A. Dombrowski
Hardback
Publication Date: 29/05/2006

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In recent years, the ontological argument and theistic metaphysics have been criticised by philosophers working in both the analytic and continental traditions. Responses to these criticisms have primarily come from philosophers who make use of the traditional, and problematic, concept of God. In this volume, Daniel A. Dombrowski defends the ontological argument against its contemporary critics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or process concept of God, thereby strengthening the case for a contemporary theistic metaphysics. Relying on the thought of Charles Hartshorne, he builds on Hartshorne's crucial distinction between divine existence and divine actuality, which enables neoclassical defenders of the ontological argument to avoid the familiar criticism that the argument moves illegitimately from an abstract concept to concrete reality. His argument, thus, avoids the problems inherent in the traditional concept of God as static.
ISBN:
9780521863698
9780521863698
Category:
Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
29-05-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
182
Dimensions (mm):
233x157x21mm
Weight:
0.44kg

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