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  title info:
    title: Leibniz, God, and necessity
  name:
    name part: Griffin, Michael V.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 195 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: Introduction; 1. Descartes's arguments for God's existence; 2. The ontological argument, the principle of sufficient reason and Leibniz's doctrine of striving possibles; 3. Necessitarianism in Spinoza and Leibniz; 4. Leibniz on compossibility and possible worlds; 5. Molina on divine foreknowledge; 6. Leibniz on middle knowledge; 7. Leibniz on God's knowledge of counterfactuals.
  note: Michael V. Griffin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-190) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Freiherr von
      name part: Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
      name part: 1646-1716
  subject:
    topic: God
  subject:
    topic: God
    topic: Proof, Ontological
  subject:
    topic: Necessity (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern
  classification: B2598 .G75 2013
  classification: 212.092
  identifier: 9780521117081
  identifier: 0521117089
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 120514
    record change date: 20151203084506.0
    record identifier: in00002819602