TY  - BOOK
AU  - Griffin,Michael V.
TI  - Leibniz, God and necessity
SN  - 9781139839532
AV  - B2598 .G75 2013eb
U1  - 212.092 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm,
KW  - God
KW  - Proof, Ontological
KW  - Necessity (Philosophy)
KW  - Dieu
KW  - Existence
KW  - Preuve ontologique
KW  - Nécessité (Philosophie)
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - History & Surveys
KW  - Modern
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - gtt
KW  - Noodzakelijkheid
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Descartes's arguments for God's existence -- The ontological argument, the principle of sufficient reason and Leibniz's doctrine of striving possibles -- Necessitarianism in Spinoza and Leibniz -- Leibniz on compossibility and possible worlds -- Molina on divine foreknowledge -- Leibniz on middle knowledge -- Leibniz on God's knowledge of counterfactuals
N2  - "Leibniz states that 'metaphysics is natural theology', and this is especially true of his metaphysics of modality. In this book, Michael V. Griffin examines the deep connection between the two and the philosophical consequences which follow from it. Grounding many of Leibniz's modal conceptions in his theology, Griffin develops a new interpretation of the ontological argument in Leibniz and Descartes. This interpretation demonstrates that their understanding God's necessary existence cannot be construed in contemporary modal logical terms. He goes on to develop a necessitarian interpretation of Leibniz, arguing that Leibniz, like Spinoza, is committed to the thesis that everything actual is metaphysically necessary, but that Leibniz rejects Spinoza's denial of God's moral perfection. His book will appeal to scholars of early modern philosophy and philosophers interested in modal metaphysics and the philosophy of religion"--
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