The Contingency of Necessity: Reason and God as Matters of Fact

Argues that that all necessity is consequent, and that reason and God are contingent, albeit eternal, necessitiesFocusing on the central striking claim that there is something rather than nothing - that all necessity is consequent - Tritten engages with a wide range of ancient as well as contemporar...

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Beteilige Person: Tritten, Tyler (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:New Perspectives in Ontology : NPO
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428217?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428217?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428217?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428217?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428217?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428217?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428217?locatt=mode:legacy
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428217?locatt=mode:legacy
Zusammenfassung:Argues that that all necessity is consequent, and that reason and God are contingent, albeit eternal, necessitiesFocusing on the central striking claim that there is something rather than nothing - that all necessity is consequent - Tritten engages with a wide range of ancient as well as contemporary philosophers including Quentin Meillassoux, Richard Kearney, Friedrich Schelling, Émile Boutroux and Markus Gabriel. He examines the ramifications of this truth arguing that even reason and God, while necessary according to essence, are utterly contingent with respect to existence.Key FeaturesShows how all necessary truths are products of an epistemic framework that is itself historically contingentExplains the nature of contingency as something that stems from the facticity of being itself Explains the emergence and ontological status of reason, particularly the principle of sufficient reasonArgues for the contingency of God's existence while maintaining the necessity of his essenceProvides an alternative to Quentin Meillassoux's thesis for the necessity of contingency
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Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
ISBN:9781474428217
DOI:10.1515/9781474428217