God

by Robinson, Timothy A.

• ISBN13: 9780872206410
• ISBN10: 0872206416
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: HACKETT

Summary

Including over one hundred and fifty pages of new material, a new introduction, enhanced headnotes, and an updated list of further readings, this significantly expanded anthology provides a rich selection of traditional and modern works that reflect the many ways in which philosophers have attempted to address the question of the existence of God.

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	ix
Introduction for Students	xv
I. Arguments for God's Existence	1	(112)
``God Above Reason,'' from On Free Choice of the Will	1	(16)
Augustine
``The Ontological Argument,'' from Proslogion	17	(13)
Anselm
Gaunilo
``The Five Ways,'' from Summa Theologica	30	(7)
Thomas Aquinas
``The Teleological Argument,'' from Natural Theology	37	(19)
William Paley
``Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creatio ex Nihilo''	56	(18)
William Lane Craig
``Religion and the Queerness of Morality''	74	(16)
George I. Mavrodes
``Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief''	90	(23)
Robert Merrihew Adams
II. Criticisms	113	(50)
``Critique of the Traditional Arguments,'' from Why I Am Not a Christian	113	(8)
Bertrand Russell
``Anthropomorphism,'' from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	121	(13)
David Hume
``The Existence of God''	134	(16)
J.J.C. Smart
``The `Big Bang' Argument for the Existence of God''	150	(13)
Theodore Schick, Jr.
III. Arguments Against, with Replies	163	(90)
``Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence''	163	(4)
George I. Mavrodes
``Omniscience and Immutability''	167	(15)
Norman Kretzmann
``Omniscience and Human Freedom,'' from Consolation of Philosophy	182	(14)
Boethius
``God and Human Attitudes''	196	(16)
James Rachels
Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans	212	(12)
Augustine
``Evil and a Finite God,'' from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	224	(6)
David Hume
``Evil and Omnipotence''	230	(15)
J. L. Mackie
``The Vale of Soul-Making,'' from Evil and the God of Love	245	(8)
John Hick
IV. The Nature of Religion	253	(56)
``Religion and Power,'' from On the Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science, and Beyond Good and Evil	253	(9)
Friedrich Nietzsche
``The Psychological Origins of Religion,'' from Totem and Taboo, The Future of an Illusion, and Civilization and Its Discontents	262	(15)
Sigmund Freud
``The Reality of the Unseen,'' from The Varieties of Religious Experience	277	(8)
William James
``The Idea of the Holy,'' from The Idea of the Holy	285	(14)
Rudolf Otto
``The Phenomenology of Religion,'' from The Myth of the Eternal Return	299	(10)
Mircea Eliade
V. A Godless World	309	(19)
``Atheistic Existentialism,'' from Existentialism and Human Emotions	309	(8)
Jean-Paul Sartre
``Absurd,'' from The Myth of Sisyphus	317	(11)
Albert Camus
VI. Alternative Strategies	328	(80)
``Reconceiving God,'' from Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes	328	(12)
Charles Hartshorne
``Theology and Falsification''	340	(11)
Antony Flew
R. M. Hare
Basil Mitchell
``Is Belief in God Properly Basic?''	351	(13)
Alvin Plantinga
``The Wager,'' from Pensees	364	(5)
Blaise Pascal
``The Will to Believe,'' from Pragmatism and Other Essays	369	(15)
William James
``Signals of Transcendence,'' from A Rumor of Angels	384	(13)
Peter Berger
``I and Thou,'' from I and Thou	397	(11)
Martin Buber
Further Readings	408