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The miracle of theism : arguments for and against the existence of God / J.L. Mackie.

By: Publication details: Oxford [Oxfordshire], UK : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.Description: 268 p. ; pbk ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 019824682X (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 212/.1 19
LOC classification:
  • BT102 .M244 1982
Online resources:
Contents:
Miracles and testimony. Hume's argument : exposition ; Hume's argument : discussion -- Descartes and the idea of God. The argument of the Third Meditation : exposition ; The argument of the Third Meditation : discussion -- Ontological arguments. Descartes's proof and Kant's criticism ; Anselm's ontological proof and Gaunilo's reply ; Plantinga's ontological proof -- Berkeley's God and immaterial realism. Berkeley's theism : exposition ; Berkeley's theism : discussion -- Cosmological arguments. Contingency and sufficient reason ; The regress of causes ; Finite past time and creation ; Swinburne's inductive cosmological argument -- Moral arguments for the existence of a God. A popular line of thought ; Newman : conscience as the creative principle of religion ; Kant : God as a presupposition of morality ; Sidgwick : the duality of practical reason ; God and the objectivity of value -- The argument from consciousness -- Arguments for design. Hume's Dialogues : exposition ; Hume's Dialogues : discussion ; Swinburne's restatement -- The problem of evil. Survey of the problem ; Attempts to sidestep the problem ; The paradox of omnipotence ; The free will defence ; Digression : the nature of free will ; The free will defence : continued -- Religious experience and natural histories of religion. The varieties of religious experience ; Natural histories of religion -- Belief without reason. Pascal's wager ; William James and the will to believe ; Kierkegaard and the primacy of commitment -- Religion without belief? -- Replacements for God -- Conclusions and implications. The challenge of nihilism ; The balance of probabilities ; The moral consequences of atheism.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Miracles and testimony. Hume's argument : exposition ; Hume's argument : discussion --
Descartes and the idea of God. The argument of the Third Meditation : exposition ; The argument of the Third Meditation : discussion --
Ontological arguments. Descartes's proof and Kant's criticism ; Anselm's ontological proof and Gaunilo's reply ; Plantinga's ontological proof --
Berkeley's God and immaterial realism. Berkeley's theism : exposition ; Berkeley's theism : discussion --
Cosmological arguments. Contingency and sufficient reason ; The regress of causes ; Finite past time and creation ; Swinburne's inductive cosmological argument --
Moral arguments for the existence of a God. A popular line of thought ; Newman : conscience as the creative principle of religion ; Kant : God as a presupposition of morality ; Sidgwick : the duality of practical reason ; God and the objectivity of value --
The argument from consciousness --
Arguments for design. Hume's Dialogues : exposition ; Hume's Dialogues : discussion ; Swinburne's restatement --
The problem of evil. Survey of the problem ; Attempts to sidestep the problem ; The paradox of omnipotence ; The free will defence ; Digression : the nature of free will ; The free will defence : continued --
Religious experience and natural histories of religion. The varieties of religious experience ; Natural histories of religion --
Belief without reason. Pascal's wager ; William James and the will to believe ; Kierkegaard and the primacy of commitment --
Religion without belief? --
Replacements for God --
Conclusions and implications. The challenge of nihilism ; The balance of probabilities ; The moral consequences of atheism.

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