Evil and maximal greatness
By defining God as a maximally great being Plantinga is able to devise an ontological argument which validly infers from the possibility of there being a God that there necessarily is a God. In this article I shall argue that Plantinga’s argument is not only question-begging, as several critics have...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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2022
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Год: 2022, Том: 91, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 93-109 |
| Нормированные ключевые слова (последовательности): | B
Plantinga, Alvin 1932-
/ Онтологическое доказательство существования Бога
/ Модальность (лингвистика)
/ Размер
/ Maximum
/ Критика (мотив)
/ Зло
/ Порочный круг (философия) (Философия (мотив))
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| Индексация IxTheo: | AB Философия религии NBC Бог VA Философия |
| Другие ключевые слова: | B
Modal problem of evil
B Maximal greatness B Modal ontological argument B Plantinga |
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| Итог: | By defining God as a maximally great being Plantinga is able to devise an ontological argument which validly infers from the possibility of there being a God that there necessarily is a God. In this article I shall argue that Plantinga’s argument is not only question-begging, as several critics have complained, but circular in the strongest sense of the term. Based on reflections on the relation between the notions of coherence and possibility, I shall defend two arguments, previously proposed by Tooley (Mind 90:422–427, 1981) and Guleserian (Nous 17:221–238, 1983), against the existence of a maximally great being. The article concludes with some critical remarks on Plantinga’s rationale for conceiving God as such a being. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-021-09810-1 |
