scholarly journals A New and Improved Argument for a Necessary Being

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Turri
Keyword(s):  
Recent Argument ◽  
Necessary Being

I suggest two improvements to Joshua Rasmussen’s intriguing recent argument that a causally powerful being necessarily exists.

Architecture after Drafting

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Keller Sean
Keyword(s):  
Dominant Role ◽  
Recent Argument ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Computational Representations

"In den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten wurde die Dominanz des Zeichnens für die Architektur von einer ganzen Reihe von digitalen Repräsentationstechniken verdrängt. Der Beitrag stellt eine kritische Antwort auf Mario Carpos These dar, dieser Wandel bringe Architektur zu einer »autographischen« Praxis zurück, die noch vor die Renaissance zurückreiche. Demgegenüber argumentiert der Beitrag, dass Architektur nach dem Modell von Rosalind Kraus als post-medium art (»postmediale Kunst«) gedacht werden sollte. </br></br>Over the last two decades drawing has been displaced from its dominant role in architecture by a range of computational representations. This article offers a critical response to Mario Carpo's recent argument that this shift returns architecture to an 〉autographic〈 mode of practice not seen since before the Renaissance. In contrast, I suggest that architecture today should be thought of through Rosalind Krauss's model of a post-medium art. "

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander R. Pruss ◽  
Joshua L. Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Ontology ◽  
Necessary Being ◽  
Detailed Presentation

Why care whether there is a necessary being? The chapter opens with an explanation of how the question of whether there is a necessary being matters in theology, cosmology, and debates about fundamental ontology. It is shown that some of the most important questions in these fields depend in one way or another on whether there is a necessary being. Some reason is provided to be optimistic that it is possible to make progress on the question of whether there is a necessary being. Toward that end, the results of a survey (www.necessarybeing.com) are also given, which suggests that the vast majority of people, including skeptics of a necessary being, are inclined to find plausible certain premises in deductive arguments for the existence of a necessary being. The stage is set for a detailed presentation and analysis of those arguments.

Necessary Existence

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander R. Pruss ◽  
Joshua L. Rasmussen
Keyword(s):  
Modal Logic ◽  
Abstract Objects ◽  
Classical Theism ◽  
Necessary Being ◽  
Necessary Existence ◽  
Concrete Entity ◽  
The Universe

A necessary being is a concrete entity that cannot fail to exist. An example of such a being might be the God of classical theism or the universe of necessitarians. Necessary Existence offers and carefully defends a number of novel arguments for the thesis that there exists at least one necessary being, while inviting the reader to a future investigation of what the neccessary being(s) is (are) like. The arguments include a defense of a classic contingency argument, a series of new modal arguments from possible causes, an argument from abstract objects, and a Gödelian argument from perfections. Furthermore, arguments against the possibility of a necessary being are critically examined. Among these arguments are old and new arguments from conceivability, a subtraction argument, problems with causation, and an argument from parsimony. Necessary Existence also includes a defense of the axioms of S5 modal logic, which is a framework for understanding several arguments for necessary existents.

Is Catholic faith worth having?

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
GREGORY R. P. STACEY
Keyword(s):  
Recent Argument ◽  
Catholic Faith

Abstract This article defends the claim that firm belief in divine testimony (‘Catholic Faith’) is morally valuable, if the broad claims of Christian orthodoxy hold. I discuss Jonathan Kvanvig's recent argument that Christians should not hold that salvific faith necessarily involves belief in revelation or God's existence, because such faith is not much ‘worth having’, suggesting that this argument is dubious from Catholic and Protestant theological perspectives. I then examine some extant accounts of Catholic Faith's value, conceding that Kvanvig successfully highlights their flaws. I therefore offer a novel explanation of Catholic Faith's value, drawing on Miranda Fricker's account of testimonial justice.

scholarly journals Global symmetry, Euclidean gravity, and the black hole information problem

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Harlow ◽  
Edgar Shaghoulian
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Gravity ◽  
Global Symmetries ◽  
Close Connection ◽  
Usual Sense ◽  
Global Symmetry ◽  
Recent Argument ◽  
Black Hole Information ◽  
Information Problem ◽  
Low Dimensional

Abstract In this paper we argue for a close connection between the non-existence of global symmetries in quantum gravity and a unitary resolution of the black hole information problem. In particular we show how the essential ingredients of recent calculations of the Page curve of an evaporating black hole can be used to generalize a recent argument against global symmetries beyond the AdS/CFT correspondence to more realistic theories of quantum gravity. We also give several low-dimensional examples of quantum gravity theories which do not have a unitary resolution of the black hole information problem in the usual sense, and which therefore can and do have global symmetries. Motivated by this discussion, we conjecture that in a certain sense Euclidean quantum gravity is equivalent to holography.

scholarly journals BERTUHAN TANPA AGAMA?

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusuf Suyono
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Being

Manusia adalah makhluk misterius, karena dibekali fakultas akal yang bisa melahirkan pemikiran-pemikiran yang sangat menge-jutkan penalaran awam. “Against religion, why we should try to live without it? “, “Spirituality yes, organized religion no “, “God is dead “ dan be¬la¬¬kangan “Bertuhan tanpa agama" adalah contoh-contoh pemi¬kir¬an yang dilahirkan oleh manusia lewat fakultas akal yang dimilikinya itu. Contoh-contoh itu bisa diambil nilai po¬sitif¬nya yaitu ba¬gaimana menjadikan agama resmi yang di¬peluk manusia ini fungsional untuk kebaikan ma¬nusia. Agama harus mem¬bawa kebaikan bagi peme¬luk¬nya khususnya dan manusia umum¬nya, kare¬na agama haki¬kat¬nya adalah ajaran-ajaran berupa petunjuk-petunjuk yang misinya mem¬ba¬ha¬gia¬kan manu¬sia. Sebab kalau tidak diambil nilai posi¬tifnya, pernyataan-pernyataan seperti itu akan mem¬buat para agamawan keba¬karan jenggot. Demi¬kian juga, pernyataan-pernyataan tersebut harus dipahami secara filosofis karena per¬nyataan-per¬¬nyataan ter¬sebut dalam dunia filsafat merupakan hal yang abash-absah saja. Kata Kunci: Impossible being, necessary being, al-Iktinah, eksis¬ten¬¬sialisme, Prima Causa

scholarly journals The Problem of Eternity of the World in the Philosophical-Theological Theory of Grigor Tatevatsi

wisdom ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
Seyran ZAKARYAN
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Being ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Providence Of God ◽  
Do So ◽  
Will Of God

The famous Armenian theologian and philosopher Grigor Tatevatsi (1346-1409) in his teaching tries to compare the biblical truth of creation with the philosophical postulate regarding the eternity of the world. Principally, being a creationist thinker, he criticized the theories that made the Materia co-eternal to God, meanwhile, he proposed the following arguments regarding the eternity of the world: a) before the creation the world existed actually by influence in the providence of God as an immaterial paradigm; b) the world is eternal because it is linked to eternity; c) the God is the eternal and always actual being, therefore the world was created eternal and the eternal is the necessary being which never can become none-being; d) the will of God is unchangeable, He cannot make the created world become non-being otherwise His will would change; e) the God does not make the world become non-being not because He is unable to do so but due to the boundless goodness; f. the world is eternal because the four elements and qualities that are the basis of it, are eternal. Therefore, even though the arguments proposed by Tatevatsi are based on and contain typical ideas of Neoplatonism, one has to take into account that he speaks of the eternity of the created world rather than co-existence of world with the God.

Metaphyiscal Nihilism and Necessary Being

Philosophia ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 799-820 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyron Goldschmidt
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Being

A Necessary Being

1993 ◽  
pp. 263-290
Author(s):  
Richard Swinburne
Keyword(s):  
Necessary Being
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