Jeff Speaks

The Greatest Possible Being (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

What can we know about God by reason alone? Philosophical theology is the attempt to obtain such knowledge. An ancient tradition, which is perhaps more influential now than ever, tries to derive the attributes of God from the principle that God is the greatest possible being. Jeff Speaks argues that that constructive project is a failure. He also argues that the related view that the concept of God is the concept of a greatest possible being is a mistake. In the last chapter, he sketches an alternative path forward.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780192561497
• Artikelnr.: 54591629

Autorenporträt

Jeff Speaks is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His previous work includes The Phenomenal and the Representational (OUP 2015) and New Thinking About Propositions (with Jeffrey King and Scott Soames, OUP 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

0: Introduction
1: The idea of a greatest possible being
2: Alethic perfect being theology
3: Epistemic perfect being theology
4: Impure perfect being theology
5: Conict and the problem of hidden attributes
6: Permissible tinkering with the concept of God
7: Perfect being semantics
8: Beyond perfect being theology