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050 00 $aBT103$b.A43 2008
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100 1 $aAllen, R. T.,$d1941-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92075197
245 14 $aThe necessity of God :$bontological claims revisited /$cR.T. Allen.
260 $aNew Brunswick :$bTransaction Publishers,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $aviii, 97 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 91-93) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPrevious Ontological Arguments for the Existence of God -- $g2.$tSomething Must Exist -- $g3.$tFurther Attributes of Necessary Being -- $g4.$tImpersonal or Personal? -- $g5.$tThe Relation of the Necessary God to a Merely Possible World -- $g6.$tGod as Necessary but Also Finite -- $gEpilogue.$tReview and Prospect -- $gApp.$tHartshorne's Dipolar Conception of God.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aGod$xProof, Ontological.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85055555
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