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God, arguments for the existence of
Arguments for the existence of God go back at least to Aristotle, who argued that there must be a first mover, itself unmoved. All the great medieval philosophers ...
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Ontology
The word ‘ontology’ is used to refer to philosophical investigation of existence, or being. Such investigation may be directed towards the concept of being, asking what ‘being’ means, ...
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Hiddenness of God
The problem of divine hiddenness is that the hiddenness of God seems to supply a strong reason to think that there is no loving God, since a loving ...
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Brentano, Franz Clemens (1838–1917)
Brentano was a philosopher and psychologist who taught at the Universities of Würzburg and Vienna. He made significant contributions to almost every branch of philosophy, notably psychology and ...
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Siger of Brabant (c.1240–c.1284)
Born probably circa 1240 in the Duchy of Brabant, Siger of Brabant studied philosophy in the arts faculty at the University of Paris and became regent master ...
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Abelard, Peter (1079–1142)
Among the many scholars who promoted the revival of learning in western Europe in the early twelfth century, Abelard stands out as a consummate logician, a formidable polemicist ...
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Evolution, theory of
The biological theory of evolution advances the view that the variety and forms of life on earth are the result of descent with modification from the earliest forms ...
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Necessary being
Many think that God is perfect, or free from defect, and that being able not to exist is a defect. These infer that God is not able not ...
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Lombard, Peter (1095/1100–1160)
Peter Lombard’s philosophical views are important given the formative role his Sententiae in IV libris distinctae (Four Books of Sentences) played in the education of university theologians in ...
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Asceticism
The term ‘asceticism’ is derived from the Greek word, askēsis, which referred originally to the sort of exercise, practice or training in which athletes engage. Asceticism may ...
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Tennant, Frederick Robert (1866–1957)
A prolific writer on religion and philosophical theology, Tennant produced book-length studies of topics as diverse as the philosophy of science and the origin of sin. He is ...
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Religion and epistemology
Epistemology is theory of knowledge; one would therefore expect epistemological discussions of religion to concentrate on the question as to whether one could have knowledge of religious beliefs. ...
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Religion and epistemology
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Epistemology is theory of knowledge; one would therefore expect epistemological discussions of religion to concentrate on the question as to whether one could have knowledge of religious beliefs. ...
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Bonaventure (c.1217–74)
Bonaventure (John of Fidanza) developed a synthesis of philosophy and theology in which Neoplatonic doctrines are transformed by a Christian framework. Though often remembered for his denunciations of ...
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Henry of Ghent (early 13th century–1293)
Perhaps the most influential theologian between Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure in the third quarter of the thirteenth century and John Duns Scotus at the beginning of the fourteenth ...
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Murdoch, Iris (1919–99)
Iris Murdoch was an Oxford moral philosopher and a prolific novelist. Her philosophy was marked by a strong sense of the moral significance of our inner lives: the ...
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Religion and science
Philosophical discussion of the relation between modern science and religion has tended to focus on Christianity, because of its dominance in the West. The relations between science and ...
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Shaftesbury, Third Earl of (Anthony Ashley Cooper) (1671–1713)
Shaftesbury, whose influence on eighteenth-century thought was enormous, was the last great representative of the Platonic tradition in England. He argued that by natural reason we can see ...
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Simplicity, divine
To be complex is to have many parts. To be simple is to have few. Theists of all religious traditions have asserted that God is completely simple – ...
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Atheism
Atheism is the position that affirms the nonexistence of God. It proposes positive disbelief rather than mere suspension of belief. Since many different gods have been objects of ...
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Holcot, Robert (c.1290–1349)
Earlier scholars labelled Robert Holcot a sceptic, a nominalist and an Ockhamist. In fact, the work of this English Dominican friar is too complex and original for any ...
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Hartshorne, Charles (1897–2000)
Despite the fact that Hartshorne often criticized the metaphysics of substance found in medieval philosophy, he was like medieval thinkers in developing a philosophy that was theocentric. From ...
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Religious language
The main philosophical interest in religious language is in the understanding of what purport to be statements about God. Can they really be what they seem to be ...
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Contingency
People are often puzzled about the apparent contingency of the world. To say that something happens contingently is to say that it might not have happened, and to ...
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Bolzano, Bernard (1781–1848)
Bernard Bolzano was a lone forerunner both of analytical philosophy and phenomenology. Born in Prague in the year when Kant’s first Critique appeared, he became one of the ...
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