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Philosophy: The Power of Ideas
Philosophy: The Power of Ideas, 5/e
Brooke Moore
Kenneth Bruder

Philosophy and Belief in God

Key Themes

* The connection and difference between philosophy of religion and theology.

* The claims of religious mysticism.

* A variety of ontological, teleological, cosmological and moral arguments for God's existence from St. Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, Rene Descartes, and Baron von Leibniz.

* How David Hume and Immanuel Kant responded to theses arguments.

* The nineteenth century viewpoints of Cardinal John Henry Newman, Soren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and William James.

* God and logical positivism.

* A feminist approach to God.