Fullness of Being

• Utgivningsdatum: 2002-03-15
• Mått: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
• Vikt: 386 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Antal sidor: 190
• Förlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• ISBN: 9780268028640

• Filosofi
• Religion: allmänt

Barry Miller is honorary fellow at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. He is the author of numerous books and articles, including A Most Unlikely God, also published by the University of Notre Dame Press.

"This book does a valuable service by clearing up some long-standing confusions on the question whether 'exists' is a meaningful predicate. . . . Barry Miller, well acquainted himself with analytic philosophy, shows cogently that all such objections are based on flawed presuppositions, such as that all real predicates signify a property that inheres in a pre-existing subject, which cannot be true of 'exists.' 'Socrates exists' signifies rather that Socrates is a 'bounded' instance of existence. . . . Miller ingeniously shows how the predicate 'exists' does not signify merely a minimum level of being; it also signifies that by which all the other real properties of anything are constituted as real." —Theological Studies"This book proposes a new analysis of the relation between any individual and its instance of existence. This new paradigm replaces construing an individual's instance of existence as inhering in that individual, as, for example, wisdom inheres in Socrates." —The Thomist"In The Fullness of Being, Miller takes his place alongside Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Aquinas, in arguing that existence is a genuine property. . . . Miller's work on existence is a remarkable achievement. . . . It should be required reading for those philosophers interested in the topic of existence, and it is a significant contribution to philosophical theology." —Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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