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God: God is a supreme being or creator deity that is worshipped in various religions. God is often described as being omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnibenevolent (all-good). God is also often believed to be the creator and sustainer of the universe. See also Religion, Religious belief, Theology, Creation myth, Culture, Cultural tradition._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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David Hume on God - Dictionary of Arguments
I 89 God/Hume: you can think of God in a negative way: as a cause of the principles, insofar atheism is valid and the finality (goal, purpose in the world) returns. --- II 253 God/necessity/existence/Hume: for example, suppose the expression "necessary existence" would make sense: why could this necessarily not be the material universe instead of God? Matter could well possess a number of properties unknown to us,... II 254 ...which, if known, would cause us to consider the non-existence of matter unimaginable. Whoever does not want to acknowledge this, however, proves to be biased towards God's existence. Infinity/Demea: Demea has conceded that the chain of causes possibly goes back to infinity. But how can this have a cause? Vs: the concept of cause implies a temporal sequence and thus a beginning. In addition: what reasonable need is there at all for an explanation of the series of causes when the world is infinite and eternal? If I can give an explanation for each of twenty objects of a class, the further question about the cause of the whole class would seem unreasonable._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
D. Hume I Gilles Delueze David Hume, Frankfurt 1997 (Frankreich 1953,1988) II Norbert Hoerster Hume: Existenz und Eigenschaften Gottes aus Speck(Hg) Grundprobleme der großen Philosophen der Neuzeit I Göttingen, 1997 |