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A theory of the absolute

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A theory of the absolute/ Benedikt Paul Gocke; Series edited by Yujin Nagasawa, Erik J. Wielenberg.
Author:	Gocke, Benedikt Paul,
other author:	Nagasawa, Yujin.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan : : 2014.,
Description:	272 p. :13 ill. :
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Subject:	Absolute, The. -
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137412828 (electronic bk.) :

A theory of the absolute
Gocke, Benedikt Paul,1981-

A theory of the absolute[electronic resource] /Benedikt Paul Gocke; Series edited by Yujin Nagasawa, Erik J. Wielenberg. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 272 p. :13 ill. - Palgrave frontiers in philosophy of religion.

Electronic book text.

Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: A Theory of the Absolute 2. Possible Worlds and Individual Essences 3. Existence and Individual Essences 4. Time and Individual Essences 5. Conceivability and Individual Essences 6. A Clarification of Physicalism 7. A Refutation of Physicalism 8. Reflections on the Soul 9. Concepts of God in Philosophy and Theology 10. The Contingency of Empirical Reality 11. The Indistinct Absolute 12. Summary 13. Bibliography Index.

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A Theory of the Absolute develops a worldview that is opposed to the dominant paradigm of physicalism and atheism. It provides powerful arguments for the existence of the soul and the existence of the Absolute. It shows that faith is not in contradiction to reason.The purpose of A Theory of the Absolute is to sketch a theory of the basic structure of empirical reality, and its relation to the Absolute. It is influenced by the methods of analytic philosophy as well as phenomenology. Influential figures are Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, Edmund Husserl, and Rene Descartes. A Theory of the Absolute develops a worldview that is opposed to the dominant paradigm of physicalism and atheism. Based on a new ontology of possible worlds, it is argued that subjects of experience cannot be identified with world-constitutive physical particulars. Instead, they are non-physical world-receptive particulars. It is then argued that there is sufficient reason to conclude that there is a supernatural cause of the being of empirical reality which is properly referred to as the Absolute. It is argued that the Absolute, surprisingly and puzzlingly, is neither distinct from nor identical with empirical reality. Instead, the Absolute is indistinct, that is, the more transcendent the more it is immanent to empirical reality.

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Benedikt Paul Gocke is Assistant Professor at the Catholic Faculty of Theology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, and Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University, UK.

ISBN: 1137412828 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

1010973
Absolute, The.

LC Class. No.: QC6.4.A27

Dewey Class. No.: 111.6

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