Order:
  1.  40
    The Principle of Sufficient Reason and the Uncaused Beginning of the Universe.Chad Allen - 1997 - Dialogue 36 (3):555-562.
    Des philosophes théistes comme Thomas D. Sullivan ont adapté les arguments cosmologiques bases sur le Principe de raison suffisante pour les ajuster à la cosmologie contemporaine du Big Bang Leur thèse centrale est que uisque le Big Bang n'a pas pu avoir une cause physique et puisque tout a une cause, le Big Bang a dû avoir une cause non physique ou surnaturelle. Des philosophes non théistes qui acceptent la cosmologie standard du Big Bang ont remis en question la vérité (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  2.  66
    Smith’s The Felt Meanings of the World and the Pure Appreciation of Being Simpliciter.Chad Allen - 1996 - Journal of Philosophical Research 21:69-80.
    In The Felt Meanings of the World, Quentin Smith lays the groundwork for a metaphysical worldview that is meant to stand as an alternative to nihilism. Smith finds fault with nihilism inasmuch as it fails to account for the possibility that faculties other than reason, namely feelings or intuition, may be the source of important metaphysical insight. From this observation, Smith builds his “metaphysics of feeling,” which is not concemed with rational explanations of the world’s existence, but rather with the (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark