Omnisubjectivity An Essay on God and Subjectivity

by Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus

• ISBN13: 9780197682098
• ISBN10: 019768209X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-08-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski is George Lynn Cross Research Professor Emerita and Kingfisher College Chair of the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics Emerita, University of Oklahoma. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Subjectivity
1. The reality of subjectivity
2. The origin of the subjective/objective divide
3. The scope of subjectivity: consciousness in God and creatures
4. The importance of subjectivity
Chapter 2 Why God Must be Omnisubjective
1. Introduction
2. Omniscience
3. Omnipresence
4. The practices of prayer
5. Divine love
6. Divine justice
Chapter 3 How God Can be Omnisubjective
1. Introduction
2. The model of total empathy
3. The perceptual model
4. Panentheism
5. Creative consciousness
Chapter 4 Objections from Other Attributes
1. Introduction
2. Timelessness and immutability
3. Impassibility
4. The moral objection and the holiness objection
5. Can an essentially infinite God grasp states of finite creatures?
Chapter 5 Counteractual Subjectivity
1. Grasping counteractual subjectivity
2. The status of counteractual subjectivity
3. How does God grasp counteractual subjective states?
4. God's counteractual subjectivity
Chapter 6 Divine Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity
1. The Trinity
2. Divine subjectivity and the problem of evil
3. The Incarnation
4. The Holy Spirit and divine-human intersubjectivity
Chapter 7 Conclusion: The Primacy of Subjectivity
1. Being from the inside and from the outside
2. Intersubjectivity