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The Necessity of God - Ontological Claims Revisited (Paperback)
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The Necessity of God - Ontological Claims Revisited (Paperback)
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Every person acquires a worldview, a picture of reality. Within
that picture, the existence of some things will be taken wholly for
granted as the background to, and support of, everything else.
Their existence will rarely be questioned. The cosmos or universe,
the gods, God, Brahman, Heaven, the Absolute--R. T. Allen claims
that all these and other world- views have been held to be that
which necessarily exists and upon which all other beings depend in
one way or another.European philosophers, since antiquity, have
offered arguments to show that their chosen candidates for the role
of the necessary being or beings that support the rest of reality
do actually exist. The Necessity of God sets the valid core of
previous ontological arguments. It does not and cannot prove that
God exists, but only that something necessarily exists. In an a
priori manner and without inferring anything from what in fact
exists, Allen proceeds to show that which necessarily exists is
one, transfinite, eternal, and the archetype of personal existence:
in short, that it is God as classically conceived. As for
everything else that may exist, it must be finite and dependent for
its existence upon God as its creator and sustainer.Few things are
more erroneous in philosophy and disastrous in practice than
artificial constructions produced without constant reference to
concrete reality. That which necessarily exists may be the one
exception. Before this constructive argument, Allen examines
previous examples of ontological arguments in order to show exactly
where they go wrong and to extract the valid core obscured within
them. This will make clear the difference between them and his new
version. The reader who is eager to engage the philosophical
sources of belief will find a distinct treasure in The Necessity of
God.
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