Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings - Brossura

Rowe, William L.; Wainwright, William J.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0195155114 ISBN 13: 9780195155112

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1998

Riassunto

This third edition of Philosophy of Religion offers a wide variety of readings designed to introduce students to important issues in the philosophy of religion. The authors have coupled new readings―including essays by Robert M. Adams, Peter Van Inwagen, and William P. Alston―with readings from classical philosophers, thus offering instructors and students an even more comprehensive and well-focused textbook. Many of the essays are particularly accessible to beginning philosophy students. New essays cover religious pluralism, teleological and moral arguments for God's existence, and the problem of evil. Philosophy of Religion, 3/e is an excellent choice for use as a main text or as a supplement for introductory courses in philosophy and religion.

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L'autore:

William Rowe is at Purdue University. William J. Wainwright is at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

Contenuti:

• I. The Nature and Attributes of God
• Introduction
• Necessary Being:
• St. Anselm: The Divine Nature Exists through Itself, from Monologium
• St. Thomas Aquinas: God's Nature Cannot Be Separated from His Existence, from Summa Theologica
• Robert M. Adams: Divine Necessity
• J. N. Findlay: Can God's Existence Be Disproved?
• Knowledge:
• Boethius: Divine Foreknowledge and Freedom of the Will, from The Consolation of Philosophy
• St. Thomas Aquinas: The Knowledge of God, from Summa Theologica
• Nelson Pike: Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action
• Power:
• St. Thomas Aquinas: The Omnipotence of God, from Summa Theologica
• Samuel Clarke: Can God Do Evil?, from A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God
• P. T. Geach: Omnipotence
• The Metaphysical Attributes:
• St. Anselm: God Is Timeless, Immutable, and Impassible, from Proslogium and Monologium
• St. Thomas Aquinas: The Simplicity and Immutability of God, from Summa Theologica
• Charles Hartshorne: The Divine Relativity, from The Divine Relativity
• II. Arguments for the Existence of God
• Introduction
• The Ontological Argument:
• St. Anselm: The Ontological Argument, from Proslogium
• Gaunilo: The Perfect Island Objection
• At. Anselm: Reply to Gaunilo
• Rene Descartes: The Supremely Perfect Being Must Exist, from Meditations on First Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant: Of the Impollibility of an Ontological Proof, from The Critique of Pure Reason
• Alvin Plantinga: A Modal Version of the Ontological Argument, from God, Freedom and Evil
• The Cosmological Argument:
• St. Thomas Aquinas: The Existence of God and the Beginning of the World, from Summa Theologica
• Patterson Brown: Infinite Causal Regression
• Samuel Clarke: The Cosmological Argument, from Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God
• David Hume: Some Objections to the Cosmological Argument, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• William L. Rowe: Two Criticisms of the Cosmological Argument
• The Teleological Argument:
• William Paley: The Evidence of Design, from Natural Theology
• David Hume: Design and the Teleological Argument, from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
• Peter Van Inwagen: The Wider Teleological Argument, from Metaphysics
• The Moral Argument:
• Immanuel Kant: The Moral Argument, from Kant's Critique of Practical Reason and Other Works
• J. L. Mackie: Kant on the Moral Argument, from The Miracle of Theism
• George I. Mavrodes: Religion and the Queerness of Mortality
• III. The Problem of Evil
• Introduction
• Gottfried Leibniz: The Argument Reduced to Syllogistic Form, from Theodicy
• David Hume: God and the Problem of Evil, from Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion
• Fyodor Dostoevsky: Rebellion, from The Brothers Karamazov
• William L. Rowe: The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism
• John Hick: The "Soul-Making" Theodicy, from Evil and the God of Love
• Alvin Plantinga: The Free Will Defense, from God, Freedom, and Evil
• IV. Objections to Traditional Theism
• Introduction
• Wittgenstein and Fideism:
• Ludwig Wittgenstein: Religious Belief, from Lectures and Conversations
• D. Z. Phillips: Philosophy, Theology and the Reality of God
• Kai Nielsen: A Critique of Wittgensteinian Fideism, from The Autonomy of Religious Belief
• Religious Pluralism:
• John Hick: The Pluralistic Hypotheses, from An Interpretation of Religion
• Peter Byrne: A Religious Theory of Religion
• William J. Wainwright: Worldviews, Criteria and Epistemic Circularity
• V. Mysticism and Religious Experience
• Introduction
• The Nature and Types of Religious and Mystical Experience:
• Walter Stace: The Nature of Mysticism, from The Teachings of the Mystics
• R. C. Zaehner: Nature Mysticism, Soul Mysticism and Theistic Mysticism, from Mysticism: Sacred and Profane
• Ninian Smart: Numinous Experience and Mystical Experience, from A Dialog of Religion
• The Cognitive Status of Religious and Mystical Experience:
• C. D. Broad: The Appeal to Religious Experience, from Religion, Philosophy and Psychical Research
• William J. Wainwright: The Cognitive Status of Mystical Experience, from Mysticism: A Study of its Nature, Cognitive Value, and Moral Implications
• William P. Alston: Is Religious Belief Rational?"
• VI. Faith and Miracles
• Introduction
• Faith and the Need for Evidence:
• St. Thomas Aquinas: Reason and Revelation, from On the Truth of the Catholic Faith
• Blaise Pascal: The Wager, from Pensees
• Ian Hacking: The Logic of Pascal's Wager
• W. K. Clifford: The Ethics of Belief, from Lectures and Essays
• William James: The Will to Believe, from The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
• Alvin Plantinga: Is Belief in God Properly Basic?
• Stephen J. Wykstra: Toward a Sensible Evidentialism: On the Notion of "Needing Evidence"
• Miracles:
• David Hume: Of Miracles, from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• R. G. Swinburne: Miracles
• Paul Tillich: Revelation and Miracle, from Systematic Theology
• VII. Death and Immortality
• Introduction
• Anthony Quinton: The Soul
• H. H. Price: The Problem of Life After Death
• Samuel Clarke: A Future State, from A Discourse Concerning the Unalterable Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation
• David Hume: Doubts About Immortality, from Two Essays on Suicide and Immortality
• J. M. E. McTaggart: The Dependency Argument, from Some Dogmas of Religion

Su questa edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0195155114
• ISBN 13: 9780195155112
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 558