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9780761827252

The Scandal of Reason or Shadow of God

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    9780761827252

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    0761827250

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  • Copyright: 2004-01-21
  • Publisher: UPA
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Summary

By turning the classical arguments for God's existence on their head, David and Marjorie Haight present original arguments for the existence of the devil in order to reveal a cosmic God beyond Goddiness or the God beyond good and evil, which reconciles Divinity with its Shadow.

Author Biography

David F. Haight is Professor of Philosophy, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Chapter One: The Devaluation of Being 1(14)
I. First Impoverishment of Being
2(1)
II. Second Impoverishment of Being
3(1)
III. Third Impoverishment of Being
4(6)
IV. Fourth Impoverishment of Being
10(5)
Chapter Two: Conversation Between Anselm and the Fool 15(18)
I. The Ontological Argument
15(2)
II. Standard Objections and Replies
17(2)
III. An Analogical Argument for the Devil
19(4)
IV. Is Existence a Perfection?
23(4)
V. The Circle of Faith
27(1)
VI. Synopsis
28(1)
VII. Appendix
29(4)
Chapter Three: Devil Demonstrated Through Its Effects: Six Ways 33(16)
I. Motion and Causality
33(3)
II. Necessity, Contingency and Goodness
36(4)
III. Demonic Teleology
40(1)
IV. Are All Arguments for God Petitids
41(5)
V. No Fool-Proof God-Proof Exists
46(3)
Chapter Four. Dialogue Between Descartes and the Evil Genius 49(22)
I. The Cartesian Circle
49(3)
II. More Demon-strations
52(6)
III. The Round Dance of Reason
58(3)
IV. Are All Statements of Existence Contingent?
61(3)
V. Infinity and Evil
64(3)
VI. Conclusion
67(4)
Chapter Five. The Problems of Evil and Time, or the Dialogue Continued Between Leibniz and the Evil Genius 71(22)
I. The Question of Being
71(3)
II. Being and Goodness
74(1)
III. A Viable Theodicy
75(4)
IV. A Problem with Future Contingent Statements
79(3)
V. How to Continue the Dialogue?
82(1)
VI. Hartshorne's Objection: A Brief Interlude
83(6)
VII. Transition to the Shadow as Positive
89(4)
Chapter Six: An Abolute Theory of Relativity 93(98)
I. A Meta-Physics of Consciousness
93(4)
II. The Maya of Space/Time, That Which Both Is and Is Not
97(7)
III. The Ages of the Ageless
104(5)
IV. The Once and Future Vision
109(6)
V. Quod superius sicut quod inferius: As Above, So Below
115(15)
VI. Truth is Beauty, Beauty Truth
130(61)
Chapter Seven: Mathematics and the Good 191(52)
I. Absolved or Purified Set-Theoretical Wholes
191(6)
II. Set-Theoretical Reflection
197(4)
III. Waiting for Godel
201(2)
IV. Trans-Rational Thinking
203(3)
V. Paradox Lust
206(3)
VI. Infinite Substance is Inexhaustible
209(2)
VII. Another Extended Footnote to Plato
211(32)
Chapter Eight: Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds? 243(192)
I. The Law of Continuity
243(15)
II. The Monadology
258(12)
III. Materia Prima
270(15)
IV. Pre-established Harmony
285(25)
V. The Best of All Possible Worlds
310(32)
VI. Immaculate Perception
342(93)
Chapter Nine. The It from the Bit (Itty Bitty) Fallacy 435(36)
I. The Labyrinth of the Continuum
435(5)
II. Squaring the Circle
440(5)
III. Method of Exhaustion or Convergence
445(8)
IV. The Knotted Thread that Ties Up Loose Ends
453(18)
Chapter Ten: Science is Not Without Presuppositions 471(38)
I. Breaks in Spacetime or from Spacetime?
471(10)
II. Living Space and Time
481(5)
III. The Paradigm Paradigm
486(6)
IV. Memory Re-membered, Not Dis-membered
492(4)
V. Back to the Future
496(13)
Chapter Eleven: The Revaluation of Being as Such 509(38)
I. The Mystery of "Is" as Is
509(2)
II. Mind-Body Mystery
511(4)
III. Which Came First-the Computer or the Egghead?
515(9)
IV. Are Computers Conscious?
524(7)
V. "Nature," Aeschylus said, "is stronger than science."
531(5)
VI. Meditative as Distinguished from Calculative or Objective Thinking
536(5)
VII. Mysteries and Problems
541(6)
Chapter Twelve: Surplus Meaning and Value 547(21)
I. The Foundation of Analogy
547(1)
II. The Divine or Golden Formula for Blending
548(4)
III. Immediacy, or Participation, as the Final "Mediator"
552(2)
IV. The Richness of Language
554(3)
V. The Path is Laid Out for Us
557(11)
Chapter Thirteen: The Good Beyond Good and Evil, Or the Transvaluation of Being 568(13)
I. The Mystery of Good and Evil
568(3)
II. "The Truth Shall Set You Free"
571(5)
III. The Devil Revisited and Revised
576(5)
Chapter Fourteen. Mirror, Mirror of the Fall 581(16)
I. The Participation-Mystique of Good and Evil
581(4)
II. The Mirror of Possibilities
585(12)
Chapter Fifteen: Some Great Thing 597(62)
I. A History of the Archetypal World
597(7)
II. The Wheel of Life
604(4)
III. The Apple of One's Eye
608(5)
IV. The Tragic Sense of Life
613(6)
V. Poetic Madness
619(12)
VI. The Passion for Infinity
631(9)
VII. The Inside-Outside Story
640(19)
Selective Bibliography 659(32)
Index 691(20)
About the Authors 711

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