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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Published in:Sophia
Main Author: Lataster, Raphael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands 2022
In: Sophia
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.
ISSN:1873-930X
Contains:Enthalten in: Sophia
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/s11841-021-00865-1