The Contingency of Necessity : : Reason and God as Matters of Fact / / Tyler Tritten.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Tritten, Tyler,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Perspectives in Ontology : NPO
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Argues that that all necessity is consequent, and that reason and God are contingent, albeit eternal, necessitiesFocusing on the central striking claim that there is something rather than nothing – that all necessity is consequent – Tritten engages with a wide range of ancient as well as contemporary philosophers including Quentin Meillassoux, Richard Kearney, Friedrich Schelling, Émile Boutroux and Markus Gabriel. He examines the ramifications of this truth arguing that even reason and God, while necessary according to essence, are utterly contingent with respect to existence.Key FeaturesShows how all necessary truths are products of an epistemic framework that is itself historically contingentExplains the nature of contingency as something that stems from the facticity of being itself Explains the emergence and ontological status of reason, particularly the principle of sufficient reasonArgues for the contingency of God’s existence while maintaining the necessity of his essenceProvides an alternative to Quentin Meillassoux’s thesis for the necessity of contingency"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: An Attempt at a Speculative Ontology or an Alternative to Possible-God Theologies -- Part I Critical and Constructive Preliminaries: Meillassoux, Boutroux and the Early Schelling -- Chapter 1 Meillassoux against the Principle of Reason: An Ontology of Factiality -- Chapter 2 Boutroux’s Alternative: An Ontology of the Fact -- Chapter 3 On the Primacy of Matter: Neoplatonism Right-Side Up -- Part II Contingent Reason and a Contingent God: The Late Schelling and the Late Heidegger -- Chapter 4 Reason as Consequent Universal: On Thinking and Being -- Chapter 5 Decision and Withdrawal: On the Facticity and Posteriority of God -- Chapter 6 Event and De-cision: Towards an Appropriation of Heidegger’s Last God -- Part III Application and Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7 A Response to Old Riddles and a New Typology: On the Euthyphro Dilemma and Theomonism -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index