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Authors: Timothy A. Robinson
ISBN-13: 9780872206410, ISBN-10: 0872206416
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: 2nd Edition

Author Biography: Timothy A. Robinson

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God brings together philosophical and literary works representing the many ways - metaphysical, scientific, analytic, phenomenological - in which philosophers and others have attempted to address the question of the existence of God.

	Preface for Instructors
	Introduction for Students
I	Arguments for God's Existence	1
1	"God Above Reason," from On Free Choice of the Will	1
2	"The Ontological Argument," from Proslogion	17
3	"The Five Ways," from Summa Theologica	30
4	"The Teleological Argument," from Natural Theology	37
5	"Philosophical and Scientific Pointers to Creatio ex Nihilo"	56
6	"Religion and the Queerness of Morality"	74
7	"Moral Arguments for Theistic Belief"	90
II	Criticisms	113
8	"Critique of the Traditional Arguments," from Why I Am Not a Christian	113
9	"Anthropomorphism," from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	121
10	"The Existence of God"	134
11	"The 'Big Bang' Argument for the Existence of God"	150
III	Arguments Against, with Replies	163
12	"Some Puzzles Concerning Omnipotence"	163
13	"Omniscience and Immutability"	167
14	"Omniscience and Human Freedom," from Consolation of Philosophy	182
15	"God and Human Attitudes"	196
16	Concerning the Nature of Good, Against the Manichaeans	212
17	"Evil and a Finite God," from Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion	224
18	"Evil and Omnipotence"	230
19	"The Vale of Soul-Making," from Evil and the God of Love	245
IV	The Nature of Religion	253
20	"Religion and Power," from On the Genealogy of Morals, The Gay Science, and Beyond Good and Evil	253
21	"The Psychological Origins of Religion," from Totem and Taboo, The Future of an Illusion, and Civilization and Its Discontents	262
22	"The Reality of the Unseen," from The Varieties of Religious Experience	277
23	"The Idea of the Holy," from The Idea of the Holy	285
24	"The Phenomenology of Religion," from The Myth of the Eternal Return	299
V	A Godless World	309
25	"Atheistic Existentialism," from Existentialism and Human Emotions	309
26	"Absurd," from The Myth of Sisyphus	317
VI	Alternative Strategies	328
27	"Reconceiving God," from Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes	328
28	"Theology and Falsification"	340
29	"Is Belief in God Properly Basic?"	351
30	"The Wager," from Pensees	364
31	"The Will to Believe," from Pragmatism and Other Essays	369
32	"Signals of Transcendence," from A Rumor of Angels	384
33	"I and Thou," from I and Thou	397
	Further Readings	408

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