The Existence

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This book provides a detailed, updated exposition and defense of five of the historically most important (but in recent years largely neglected) philosophical proofs of God’s existence: the Aristotelian, the Neo-Platonic, the Augustinian, the Thomistic, and the Rationalist. It also offers a thorough treatment of each of the key divine attributes—unity, simplicity, eternity, omnipotence, omniscience, perfect goodness, and so forth—showing that they must be possessed by the God whose existence is demonstrated by the proofs. Finally, it answers at length all of the objections that have been leveled against these proofs. This work provides as ambitious and complete a defense of traditional natural theology as is currently in print. Its aim is to vindicate the view of the greatest philosophers of the past— thinkers like Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, Leibniz, and many others— that the existence of God can be established with certainty by way of purely rational arguments. It thereby serves as a refutation both of atheism and of the fideism that gives aid and comfort to atheism.

The twentieth century witnessed an explosion of scholarly interest in the philosophical thought of St Thomas Aquinas. One of the fruits of that Thomistic revival was an uncovering of St Thomas’s original contributions to many areas of philosophy, not least metaphysics. In the twenty first century, there has been renewed interest in Aquinas’s argumentation for the existence of God. This interest flows from an engagement with the work of the twentieth century scholars in presenting Aquinas’s own characteristic metaphysics. What we have seen is an interpretation and presentation of Aquinas’s proofs for God’s existence in terms of Thomas’s unique insights into the nature of being and the metaphysical structure of reality. Gaven Kerr has been one such author who has contributed in numerous ways to the revival of interest in Aquinas’s argumentation for the existence of God and its metaphysical buttressing. Over the last ten years Kerr has published articles on Aquinas’s various proofs for God’s existence and the metaphysics standing behind those proofs; this volume draws together those articles. Herein are included Kerr’s articles on per se ordered series, existential inertia, the proof in De Ente et Essentia, the argument from motion in the Summa Contra Gentiles, and the five ways themselves. Kerr has also written two new articles for this volume: one on the possibility of demonstrating God’s existence, and the other on how to move from God’s existence to God’s nature. This volume offers an overview of Kerr’s thinking over the last decade on Aquinas’s thought on the existence of God.

Proclus' On the Existence of Evils is not a commentary, but helps to compensate for the dearth of Neoplatonist ethical commentaries. The central question addressed in the work is: how can there be evil in a providential world? Neoplatonists agree that it cannot be caused by higher and worthier beings. Plotinus had said that evil is matter, which, unlike Aristotle, he collapsed into mere privation or lack, thus reducing its reality. He also protected higher causes from responsibility by saying that evil may result from a combination of goods. Proclus objects: evil is real, and not a privation. Rather, it is a parasite feeding off good. Parasites have no proper cause, and higher beings are thus vindicated as being the causes only of the good off which evil feeds.

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Herein this book is great works found within the highest power of thoughts shared from a young writer by the name of Borges C. Pasteur. In this book you will find so many things that point to the existences of God, through faith, facts, nature, scriptures, science history and thoughts that before was not heard of, until the making of this book came to be. The goal of these great texts is to give one the greater understandings of the world, space, time and the ordinance that God the Creator left for us to enjoy in the righteous manner and so much more, in which one can come to believe in the Creator of the heaven and the earth. Also you will find quotes from great people like Jesus Christ the LORD of lords, Albert Einstein, Sr. Isaac Newton, Noah who build the ark and what God shared with him, Dr. King, a wonderful person I know and so many more to broaden your mind, to find and to look beyond religion and see that God lives on. That the entire human race exists for this Greater purpose of God. But we must first live this life the here and now, before understanding beyond what we can see, that is eternity, to one day have it in come our grips by being worthy of it. We must first love the little things and understand them. So we can know what we are here for and have to fulfill before we can understand the greater things of God that would blow our minds, if we were to see them and know them now. Just for what you are going to read in this book it will bring a great amount of understanding to your mind. Things like, the purpose for the sand of the sea, what causes the ocean tides to divided, the reason we see the rainbow in the sky today, what science cannot fully explain but only found within the Holy bible, the meaning of the word Bible, the things our founding Fathers new about our great country. You will know some of these insights just from reading what God allowed me to find and explain in this book, it will bring you more and greater understanding and broaden your thoughts to think highly on a normal bases. You will love what comes to mind, so enjoy what I now understand, in which many of the brilliant mind of the past understood.