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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818191103321

Autore

Bertocci Peter Anthony

Titolo

The person God is / / Peter A. Bertocci

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-138-88429-4

1-315-82993-2

1-317-85135-8

1-317-85136-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (553 p.)

Collana

Muirhead Library of Philosophy ; ; 1

Disciplina

211

211.3

Soggetti

God

Philosophical anthropology

Religion - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1970--T.p. verso.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1: God: Creator of Co-Creators; I. The Person God Is; I. What is the Question of God?; II. If No Person-God, then No Unity and Uniformity of Nature; III. The Person God is: Cosmic Knower; IV. The Person God is: Loving Agent; V. The Person God is: Cosmic Creator; VI. The Person God is: Creator of Co-Creators; Part 2: The Human Person and his Moral Structure; II. A Temporalistic View of Personal Mind; I. The Identity of Mental Being

II. The Unity and Continuity of Mental BeingIII. The Substantive Self Versus the Temporal Self; IV. The Person and Continuity Through Immediate Succession; V. The Person and Continuity Through Intermittent Succession; VI. Summary; III. Foundations of Personalistic Psychology; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; Biographical Notes; IV. The Moral Structure of the Person; I. The Nature and Scope of Personal Will; (a) The Person as the Matrix of Choice; (b) The Nature of Will-Agency; (c) Will-Agency as the Condition of Truth-Finding; (d) Will-Agency and Will-Power; II. The Nature of Moral Obligation



(a) Obligation as Experienced(b) Is the Experience of Obligation Cognitive?; (c) Is Obligatoriness Acquired?; III. Conclusions; V. The Person, Obligation, and Value; VI. Is There an Ideal of Personality?; I. Obligation in Human Experience; II. Evaluating Values; III. Existence, Health, and Truth Values; IV. Truth-Values and Character-Values; V. Truth, Character, and Affiliative Values; VI. Vocation as Value-Experience; VII. Aesthetic Values; VIII. Religious Values and Philosophical Orientation; Part 3: God, the Cosmic Person and his Goodness

VII. The Logic of Naturalistic Arguments Against Theistic HypothesesI; II; III; VIII. Tennant's Critique of Religious Experience; I; II; III; IV; V; IX. The Cosmological Argument - Revisited and Revised; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; X. Can the Goodness of God be Empirically Grounded?; Appendix: The Two Conceptions of God and Two Conceptions of Value-Objectivity; I; II; III; IV; V; Appendix; I; II; III; XI. Toward a Metaphysics of Creation; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; XII.The Logic of Creationism, Advaita, and Visishtadvaita: A Critique; I; II; III; IV; XIII. An Impasse in Philosophical Theology; I

IIIII; IV; V; VI; XIV. Free Will, The Creativity of God, and Order; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; IX; Part 4: Religion as Co-Creation with God; XV. Three Visions of Perfection and Human Freedom; I. Freedom-Beyond Tension; II. Freedom - in Fulfilment; III. Freedom - as Creative Tension; IV. Perfection as Creative Insecurity; XVI. Religion as the Pursuit of Creativity by God and Man; I. Can a Good God Allow Evil?; II. What Makes Human Life Worth While?; We need to be loved; Must love not protect freedom?; Could God be good and not allow creativity?; Is it enough to be loved?

Can love be prudential only?

Sommario/riassunto

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.