The Contingency of Necessity : : Reason and God as Matters of Fact / / Tyler Tritten.
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 contemporar...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Perspectives in Ontology : NPO
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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