Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

Rundle, Bede

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Clarendon Press, Oxford UK, 2005

0199270503 / 9780199270507

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Hardcover with glossy boards, 204 pages. Why should there be anything at all? Why, in particular, should a material world exist? Bede Rundle advances clear, non-technical answers to these perplexing questions. If, as the theist maintains, God is a being who cannot but exist, his existence explains why there is something rather than nothing. However, this can also be explained on the basis of a weaker claim. Not that there is some particular being that has to be, but simply that there has to be something or other. Rundle proffers arguments for thinking that that is indeed how the question is to be put to rest. Traditionally, the existence of the physical universe is held to depend on God, but the theist faces a major difficulty in making clear how a being outside space and time, as God is customarily conceived to be, could stand in an intelligible relation to the world, whether as its creator or as the author of events within it. Rundle argues that a creator of physical reality is not required, since there is no alternative to its existence. There has to be something, and a physical universe is the only real possibility. He supports this claim by eliminating rival contenders; he dismisses the supernatural, and argues that, while other forms of being, notably the abstract and the mental, are not reducible to the physical, they presuppose its existence. Name, date on front fly leaf. Light pencil marking to about 20 pages. Record # 386538.…

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Titre
Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Auteur
Rundle, Bede
Éditeur
Clarendon Press, Oxford UK
Année de publication
2005
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Couverture rigide
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0199270503
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780199270507

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