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ISBN-10 :  0192561503 

ISBN-13 : 9780192561503

Author : Jeff Speaks 

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.

The Greatest Possible Being 1st Table of contents:

1. The Idea of a Greatest Possible Being
1.1 From greatness to the divine attributes
1.2 The modal conception of God
1.3 Two steps to a perfect being theology
1.4 Modal principles
1.5 Greatness conditions
2. Alethic Perfect Being Theology
2.1 The greatest actual being
2.2 The greatest possible being
2.3 The restriction strategy
2.4 The conjunctive strategy
3. Epistemic Perfect Being Theology
3.1 Epistemic greatness conditions
3.2 The main problem
3.3 Varieties of conceivability
4. Impure Perfect Being Theology
4.1 Absolute greatness
4.2 Kind-relative goods
5. Conflict and the Problem of Hidden Attributes
6. Permissible Tinkering with The Concept of God
6.1 The perfect being defense in action
6.2 A reductio of the perfect being defense
6.3 The perfect being defense: a diagnosis
6.4 The epistemic perfect being defense
7. Perfect Being Semantics
7.1 The standard picture of names
7.2 Three grades of perfect being semantics
7.3 What is special about ‘God’?
7.4 The modal conception and semantic equivalence
7.5 The modal conception and descriptive association
7.6 The modal conception and descriptive introduction
8. Beyond Perfect Being Theology
8.1 Deriving the attributes
8.2 Dispensable vs. mandatory attributes
8.3 The meaning of ‘God’

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