The Greatest Possible Being

ISBN-13: 9780198826811 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 192 str.

Jeff Speaks

Opis

Many people have tried to come up with a view about the nature of God by starting from the principle that God is the greatest possible being. Jeff Speaks argues that this project is a failure, and that the concept of God is the concept of a greatest possible being is a mistake. He concludes by sketching an alternative path forward.

Recenzje

Speaks offers a penetrating investigation of the concept of the greatest possible being. He argues, contrary to his own anticipation, that the concept of the greatest possible being is an inadequate device for theorizing about the nature of God. The central thesis of The Greatest Possible Being is that there is no way to derive interesting claims about God from the principle that God is the greatest possible being.

O autorze

Jeff Speaks is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His previous work includes The Phenomenal and the Representational (OUP 2015) and New Thinking About Propositions (with Jeffrey King and Scott Soames, OUP 2014).