Résumé
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This book is not about religion. Its aim is not to defend the colours of any religious confession, with its dogma and its precepts, but to examine the question of the existence of a supreme being, sufficiently separate from the world that we can call it ‘God’. Which means this is a purely philosophical reflection, based only on the resources of experience and logic. To get the ball rolling, the author begins by refuting the most frequent objections to this proposition (Freudian, Kantian, materialism), before going on to develop two types of argument that tend to prove that a God indeed exists: the first is based on the observation that the physical universe is not a cause unto itself, that it couldn’t exist without a transcendent cause the second, based on the analysis of human ideas and aspirations, arrive at the anti-Voltairian conclusion that ‘if God didn’t exist, we wouldn’t be capable of inventing him’. These two angles of argument, which were elaborated by the philosophers of Antiquity and the theologians of the Middle Ages, have been rigorously reformulated here, and enriched by the work of contemporary English and American philosophers. The ambition of this book, beyond the evidence it offers for discussion, is to accredit once again the idea that God’s existence is not just the object of an incommunicable faith, but at least a probable conclusion of reasoning that we all find accessible.
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Caractéristiques
Éditeur : Éditions du Cerf
Publication : 15 mai 2013
Intérieur : Noir & blanc
Support(s) : Livre numérique eBook [ePub]
Contenu(s) : ePub
Protection(s) : DRM Adobe (ePub)
Taille(s) : 563 ko (ePub)
Langue(s) : Français
Code(s) CLIL : 3126, 3081
EAN13 Livre numérique eBook [ePub] : 9782204112567
EAN13 (papier) : 9782204099042
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