Feser’s Case for God – Part 6: Ambiguity and Unclarity
LACK OF SPECIFICATION IN PREMISE (2) The more I examine Chunk #1 of Feser’s Aristotelian argument for God, in Chapter 1 of Five Proofs of the Existence of God (hereafter: FPEG), the more ambiguous and unclear this part of the argument seems to be. The problems begin with premise (2): 2. But change is the … Feser’s Case for God – Part 6: Ambiguity and Unclarity
Feser’s Case for God – Part 5: Potential Attributes vs. Contingent Attributes
POTENTIAL ATTRIBUTES VS. CONTINGENT ATTRIBUTES I think (i.e. strongly suspect) it is important to understand the relationship between Edward Feser’s concept of the potential attributes of X and logical possibility. Feser does not provide clarification on this point, at least not in Chapter 1 of his book Five Proofs of the Existence of God (hereafter: … Feser’s Case for God – Part 5: Potential Attributes vs. Contingent Attributes
Feser’s Case for God – Part 4: Coffee with Parmenides
THE ARGUMENT FOR PREMISE (3) In his book Five Proofs of the Existence of God (hereafter: FPEG), Edward Feser presents an Aristotelian argument for God in Chapter 1. In Part 2 of this series I divided that argument into seven chunks. Chunk #1 consists of premises (1) through (14). The first sub-argument in Chunk #1 … Feser’s Case for God – Part 4: Coffee with Parmenides
Feser’s Case for God – Part 3: Actualization of Potential
FESER TAKES OWNERSHIP OF THE FIVE ARGUMENTS In Five Proofs of the Existence of God (hereafter: FPEG), Edward Feser presents five “proofs” or arguments, each of which was inspired by an historical philosopher (or two). However, Feser takes full ownership of these five arguments, so that none of these arguments is put forward as merely … Feser’s Case for God – Part 3: Actualization of Potential
Feser’s Case for God – Part 2: Chunking Up the Aristotelian Argument
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARISTOTELIAN ARGUMENT In Chapter 1 of Five Proofs of the Existence of God (hereafter: FPEG), Edward Feser presents his Aristotelian argument for the existence of God. This is the most important argument in the book, because the other four arguments presented by Feser in later chapters all have a significant dependency … Feser’s Case for God – Part 2: Chunking Up the Aristotelian Argument
Hinman’s ABEAN Argument – Part 2: Objections to (11) and (1)
I. The Conclusion of the ABEAN Argument is UNCLEAR. (ABEAN is an acronym for: “some Aspect of Being is Eternal And Necessary”, which is premise (4) of Hinman’s argument.) The first thing that I look at when analyzing an argument is the conclusion of the argument. Here is the conclusion of Hinman’s ABEAN argument: 11. … Hinman’s ABEAN Argument – Part 2: Objections to (11) and (1)