Necessary Existence 1st Alexander R. Pruss

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 019874689X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198746898
• Author(s): Alexander R. Pruss, Joshua L. Rasmussen

Necessary Existence breaks ground on one of the deepest questions anyone ever asks: why is there anything? The classic answer is in terms of a necessary foundation. Yet, why think that is the correct answer? Pruss and Rasmussen present an original defense of the hypothesis that there is a concrete necessary being capable of providing a foundation for the existence of things. They offer six main arguments, divided into six chapters. The first argument is an up-to-date presentation and assessment of a traditional causal-based argument from contingency. The next five arguments are new “possibility-based” arguments that make use of twentieth-century advances in modal logic. The arguments present possible pathways to an intriguing and far-reaching conclusion. The final chapter answers the most challenging objections to the existence of necessary things.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Metaphysical Possibility and Necessity

3. An Argument from Contingency

4. An Argument from Possible Causes

5. From Possible Causes II
6. From Modal Uniformity

7. From Necessary Abstracta to Necessary Concreta

8. The Argument from Perfections

9. Arguments against a Necessary Being

Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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