God Actually Does Exist: a Critical Discussion of Nagasawa’s Perfect Being Theism
Yujin Nagasawa has recently, in a sense, demonstrated that God, the central subject of his perfect being theism (PBT), exists, via his maximal God approach. In this article, I shall explain that Nagasawa’s journey towards this conclusion is fraught and that the conclusion, while plausibly correct, i...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Sophia
Year: 2022, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 811-824 |
| Further subjects: | B
Perfect being theism
B Pantheism B Theism B Maximal god B Panentheism |
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| Summary: | Yujin Nagasawa has recently, in a sense, demonstrated that God, the central subject of his perfect being theism (PBT), exists, via his maximal God approach. In this article, I shall explain that Nagasawa’s journey towards this conclusion is fraught and that the conclusion, while plausibly correct, is of limited significance given that Nagasawa’s perfect being theism is not a single hypothesis but a very broad catch-all hypothesis that includes concepts of God that most would deny are worthy of the term. |
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| ISSN: | 1873-930X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sophia
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11841-021-00865-1 |