Proofs of God in early modern Europe : an anthology / [edited and translated by] Lloyd Strickland.
Contributor(s): Strickland, Lloyd [editor,, translator.]
Material type: TextPublisher: Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxvi, 299 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781481309318; 1481309315Subject(s): God -- Proof | God -- Proof -- History of doctrines -- 17th century | God -- Proof -- History of doctrines -- 18th century | God -- Proof -- History of doctrines -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 212/.1 LOC classification: BT103 | .P76 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Proving God in early modern Europe / Lloyd Strickland -- Part I. Classic presentations of the traditional physical and metaphysical proofs. A. Metaphysical proofs: Four proofs of God's existence (1644) / René Descartes (1644) -- Concerning God (1677) / Baruch Spinoza -- Of our knowledge of the existence of God (1690) / John Locke -- On the ultimate origination of things (1697) / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- B. Physical proofs: The best argument for a God (1675) / Isaac Newton -- The true author of the world (1706) / Isaac Newton -- Demonstration of God's existence (1713) / François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon -- Part II. Alternative presentations of the traditional physical and metaphysical proofs. What God is and that he is (1662) / Henry More -- On the Cartesian demonstration for the existence of God (1678) / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- On the possibility and existence of God (1701) / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- On the existence of God (late 1690s?) / Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle -- How one can be assured through reason that God exists (1704) / Pierre Sylvain Regis -- Vision as divine language (1732) / George Berkeley -- What is our evidence of a God? (1732) / Susanna Newcome -- Whether there is a God (1734) / Voltaire -- A necessary being exists (1736) / Christian Wolff -- On the existence of God (1740) / Émilie du Châtelet -- Essay on cosmology (1751) / Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis -- Part III. Other metaphysical and moral proofs. On God, creator of the soul and the body, and author of their life (1670) / Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet -- Different proofs of the divinity (1683) / François Diroys -- A metaphysical essay towards the demonstration of a God from the steady and immutable nature of truth (1687) / John Norris -- The argument from universal aseity (1755) / André-Pierre Le Guay de Prémonrval.