The God question
Subtitle: what famous thinkers from Plato to Dawkins have said about the divine
By: Andrew Pessin
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781851686599
Subjects: God; Theism; Proof
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Plato (427-347 B.C.E.): The divine craftsman ; Do the right thing; title: whatever that means; title: Aristotle (382-322 B.C.E.): The unmoved mover; title: Cicero (106-43 B.C.E.): The cost of freedom; title: Augustine (354-430 C.E.): The prognosticator ; In the beginning was the beginning ; On seeing the light; title: Boethius (480-524): The voyeur; title: Saadia (882-942): What a long strange trip it hasn't been ; Two ways of being one; title: Avicenna (980-1037): God exists because you don't have to ; The eternal emanator; title: Anselm (1033-1109): I deny God exists, therefore he exists; title: Ghazali (1058-1111): The all-powerful arsonist; title: Averroes (1126-98): Knowledge is power ; They can't handle the truth; title: Maimonides (1135-1204): Not that many are called ; Speaking of God ... ; And behold, it still is pretty good; title: Thomas Aquinas (1225-74): What could be simpler than an infinitely powerful, infinitely intelligent, infinitely good, infinite being? ; Many true and distinct things about God ; Could God create a stone so heavy he couldn't lift it? ; God has not been on vacation since the original creation; title: John Duns Scotus (1270-1308): Unchangeably changeable; title: Durandus of Saint-Pourçain (c. 1275-1332): That voodoo you do do so well; title: William of Ockham (c. 1287-1347): Sinning without sinning ; It ain't over till it's over; title: Martin Luther (1483-1546): The devil's advocate; title: Luis de Molina (1535-1600): What would Jesus do ...; title: Francisco Suárez (1548-1617): Miracles by omission; title: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): Appearances may be deceiving; title: Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): Miracles are no miracle; title: René Descartes (1596-1650): The thing that exists, exists ; The infinite being is not just a good idea ; God's got it going on ; Between the merely inconceivable and the impossible; title: Blaise Pascal (1623-62): You bet your life; title: Baruch Spinoza (1632-77): You, me, that horse, the heavens ; The deity made me do it; title: Nicolas Malebranche (1638-1715): I made the deity do it ; Honoring God, not his vegetables ; The laws of nature did it; title: G.W. Leibniz (1646-1716): The best of all possible worlds ; I need a miracle every day ; The harmonizer; title: Pierre Bayle (1647-1706): A stange, and literally incredible, "truth"; title: George Berkeley (1685-1753): What you see is what you get ; Deceptively, the non-deceiver; title: Voltaire (1694-1778): At best not the worst of all possible worlds; title: William Paley (1743-1805): The cosmic watchmaker; title: David Hume (1711-76): If the world is your premise ; Keeps going, and going, and going ...; title: Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): A pretty big IF ; You ought to believe in God; title: G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831): The autobiographer; title: Ludwig Feuerbach (1804-72): To be human is divine; title: Charles Darwin (1809-82): The blind eyemaker; title: Karl Marx (1818-83): The opium of the people; title: Sören Kierkegaard (1813-55): Nothing impersonal; title: Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): Requiem for a deity; title: William James (1842-1910): Putting into words what goes without saying; title: Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Having daddy for dinner; title: Rudolf Otto (1869-1937): The tremendous mystery; title: Martin Buber (1878-1965): The ménage à trois; title: Bertrand Russell (1872-1970): Damned if you do; title: Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947): A work in process; title: Alfred Jules Ayer (1910-89): The divine huppity hoo-ha; title: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951): Grounding the grounds; title: Charles Hartshorne (1897-2000): Everywhere at once; title: C.S. Lewis (1898-1963): The law-breaker; title: Martin Heidegger (1889-1976): The supremely good immutably unmoved first fruit; title: Norman Malcolm (1911-90): If it's even possible then it's actual; title: Karl Rahner (1904-84): Anonymous Christians; title: Harry Frankfurt (b. 1929): To dream the impossible dream, to lift the unliftable stone; title: Norman Kretzmann (1928-98): The unchanging know-it-all is neither; title: Nelson Pike (b. 1930): The almighty sandal-maker; title: Robert M. Adams (b. 1937): God could have done better, and maybe even worse; title: Eleonore Stump (b. 1947): May God grant us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed; title: namely everything; title: Alvin Plantinga (b. 1932): Reasonable without reasons; title: Hans Jonas (1903-93): God after Auschwitz; title: George Mavrodes (b. 1926): If there is no God then everything is permitted; title: William Alston (b. 1921): Perceiving God; title: John Hick (b. 1922): The one behind the many; title: Marilyn McCord Adams (b. 1943): When even the best of all possible worlds isn't good enough for you; title: Paul Davies (b. 1946): Chances are the world is not by chance; title: Richard Swinburne (b. 1934): All-knowing without knowing everything; title: Michael Behe (b. 1952): Return of the intelligent designer; title: Sarah Coakley (b. 1951): The God-dess; title: Daniel Dennett (b. 1942): Thou shalt stand on thine own two legs; title: Richard Dawkins (b. 1941): The ultimate Boeing 747; title: Concluding remarks: ending in the middle.