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050	0	0	_aBT102 _b.M244 1982
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100	1		_aMackie, J. L. _q(John Leslie)
245	1	4	_aThe miracle of theism : _barguments for and against the existence of God / _cJ.L. Mackie.
260			_aOxford [Oxfordshire], UK : _bClarendon Press ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c1982.
300			_a268 p. ; _bpbk ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505			_aMiracles 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.
650		0	_aGod _xProof.
650		0	_aTheism.
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0603/82003552-d.html
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