Herbert McCabe proving the existence of God.
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| Natura: | Articolo |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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2018.
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Nessun Tag, puoi essere il primo ad aggiungerne!!
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| Abstract: | Still today the main purpose of proving the existence of God is to show how it is possible for all people to know that God exists without relying on a personal religious faith. Here I focus on a proof that garnered attention because Leibniz, Bergson and Heidegger supported it, but later on it was revived by the English philosopher Herbert McCabe. This proof consists of a question: “Why is there anything at all rather than nothing whatsoever?”. Even though it seems to have Existentialist leanings (it is somehow twisted to reverse the atheistic assumption present in Sartre’s L’Être et le Néant), McCabe develops this proof within a broad “scientific” context – as, for instance, when he rebukes Bertrand Russell for his answer – that is he starts from the existence of the universe and not from the existence of the individual human ego, whereas the latter was indeed the starting point of the Existentialists. As opposed to all the other versions, McCabe’s proof is strongly apophatic: the answer to the why-question is something we cannot know. If we were able to know it, it would not be God (and would not be the answer to our question). |
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| Descrizione fisica: | p. 406-423 ; |
| ISSN: | 1981-9390 |