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| Ch. 1 | The Ontological Argument | 1 |
| Introduction: a priori and a posteriori arguments | 2 | |
| Anselm's argument: stage 1 | 4 | |
| Anselm's argument: stage 2 | 7 | |
| Descartes' ontological argument | 9 | |
| The two stages of the argument: a summary | 11 | |
| Kant's criticism of the ontological argument (first stage) | 11 | |
| Kant's criticism of the ontological argument (second stage) | 16 | |
| The ontological argument revisited: Findlay and Malcolm | 19 | |
| Karl Barth: a theological interpretation | 25 | |
| Sources | ||
| Anselm: The ontological argument | 31 | |
| Haight: An ontological argument for the Devil | 33 | |
| Descartes: The supremely perfect being | 35 | |
| Kant: The impossibility of an ontological proof | 36 | |
| Findlay: Disproof of God's existence | 38 | |
| Malcolm: Anselm's second ontological proof | 40 | |
| Hick: Necessary being | 42 | |
| Ch. 2 | The Cosmological Argument | 48 |
| Introduction: the argument as an a posteriori proof | 49 | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas: the arguments from motion and cause | 50 | |
| A problem of interpretation: temporal or ontological cause? | 52 | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas: the argument from contingency | 55 | |
| Criticism (1): the principle of sufficient reason | 58 | |
| Criticism (2): the argument from causality | 64 | |
| Criticism (3): the concept of necessary being | 72 | |
| Sources | ||
| Aquinas: The five proofs of God's existence | 75 | |
| Taylor: The principle of sufficient reason | 77 | |
| Hume: Objections to the cosmological argument | 83 | |
| Hume: The relation of cause and effect | 84 | |
| Kant: The impossibility of a cosmological proof | 87 | |
| Ch. 3 | The Argument from Design | 92 |
| Introduction | 93 | |
| The argument stated (1) | 93 | |
| The argument (2): induction and analogy | 97 | |
| The argument (3): its analogical form | 100 | |
| Hume's critique of the design argument | 104 | |
| Darwin's critique of the design argument | 117 | |
| Post-Darwinian theories of design | 129 | |
| The anthropic teleological argument | 133 | |
| Swinburne's design argument | 137 | |
| Sources | ||
| Paley: The watch and the watchmaker | 145 | |
| Hume: The design argument | 146 | |
| Darwin: The existence of a personal God | 153 | |
| Dawkins: God's utility function | 156 | |
| Ward: Darwin's gloomy view | 161 | |
| Ch. 4 | The Argument from Miracles | 170 |
| Introduction | 171 | |
| David Hume: 'Of Miracles' | 172 | |
| Extending Hume's argument: McKinnon and Flew | 183 | |
| Criticism of Hume (1): laws of nature | 187 | |
| Criticism of Hume (2): historical evidence for miracles: Flew and Swinburne | 188 | |
| Criticism of Hume (3): evidence of God's activity | 195 | |
| Criticism of Hume (4): the contingency definition of miracles: Holland and Tillich | 198 | |
| Sources | ||
| Hume: 'Of Miracles' | 204 | |
| Hambourger: The principle of relative likelihood | 212 | |
| Coleman: Miracles and lotteries | 213 | |
| Flew: Miracles and repeatability | 216 | |
| Swinburne: Evidence of miracles | 219 | |
| Diamond: Miracles and scientific autonomy | 221 | |
| Ch. 5 | The Moral Argument | 227 |
| Introduction: objective and relative moral values | 228 | |
| The moral argument outlined | 230 | |
| The Euthyphro dilemma | 232 | |
| Kant's moral argument (1): autonomy and categorical duty | 235 | |
| Kant's moral argument (2): God as the postulate of moral action | 241 | |
| Criticisms of Kant's moral argument | 246 | |
| Post-Kantian moral arguments: divine command theory | 250 | |
| Conclusion: absolute moral laws without God | 259 | |
| Sources | ||
| Plato: The Euthyphro dilemma | 262 | |
| Lewis: The Law of Nature | 264 | |
| Kant: The existence of God as a postulate of pure practical reason | 268 | |
| Rachels: God and autonomy | 272 | |
| Martin: Atheism, Christian theism, and rape | 276 | |
| Nielsen: Morals without God | 279 | |
| Ch. 6 | The Pragmatic Argument | 285 |
| Introduction | 286 | |
| Pascal's pragmatic argument: the Wager | 286 | |
| Criticisms of Pascal's Wager | 293 | |
| James' pragmatic argument: the will to believe | 302 | |
| Summary of James' theory of belief | 317 | |
| Criticisms of William James | 317 | |
| Sources | ||
| Pascal: The Wager | 326 | |
| Gracely: The Devil's offer | 328 | |
| Stich: Recombinant DNA and Pascalian wagering | 329 | |
| Penelhum: Criticism of Pascal's Wager | 330 | |
| James: The will to believe | 332 | |
| Moore: James' pragmatism | 338 | |
| Acknowledgements: illustrations | 344 | |
| Acknowledgements: sources | 346 | |
| App | Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online and The Question of God | 348 |
| Index of names | 354 | |
| Index of subjects | 356 |
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Mark Millner
reviewed The Question of God: An Introduction and SourceBook on March 05, 2012 The Question of God: An Introduction and SourceBook
The book was alright. After awhile, it felt redundant giving both a summary of the myth alongside an "interpretation"- which was really just another summary of the myth. As someone who has spent a good deal of college credits studying mythology, I understood most of the references but for a reader trying to learn on their own, the book left many loose ends. I liked the idea of the ending to the book but it felt as if the authors became as bored as I was reading it. It's also hard to take a women's studies book seriously when it's written by male authors.
Overall, a good collection of badly summarized myths about women- written by two men.
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