Contingency of Necessity
Subtitle: Reason and God As Matters of Fact
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781474428194
Subjects: Necessity (philosophy); Reason
Description: "Focusing on the central striking claim that there is something rather than nothing - that all necessity is consequent - Tritten engages with a wide range of ancient as well as contemporary philosophers including Quentin Meillassoux, Richard Kearney, Friedrich Schelling, Émile Boutroux and Markus Gabriel. He examines the ramifications of this truth arguing that even God, while necessary according to essence, is utterly contingent with respect to existence."--Publisher.