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How to Prove There is a God
Mortimer Adler
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Description for How to Prove There is a God
Paperback. Explains why reason shows there must be a God. This title contains articles from different stages of the author's philosophical career, with pieces from 1943 to 1981 showing him defending his position against critics and struggling to improve it by correcting his earlier errors. Editor(s): Dzugan, Ken. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRAB1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 162 x 18. Weight in Grams: 446.
One of the great tasks of Mortimer Adler's illustrious life was his search for a watertight proof of the existence of God. Adler believed that his search had been successful. Adler spent years studying the classic proofs of God's existence, especially Aquinas's Five Ways, and found shortcomings in all of them, as conventionally understood. But he thought that some of them contained ideas which, if properly developed, could be improved, and he continued to search for a satisfying and logically unassailable proof. Toward the end of the 1970s, he believed he had arrived at such a proof, which he presented ... Read more
One of the great tasks of Mortimer Adler's illustrious life was his search for a watertight proof of the existence of God. Adler believed that his search had been successful. Adler spent years studying the classic proofs of God's existence, especially Aquinas's Five Ways, and found shortcomings in all of them, as conventionally understood. But he thought that some of them contained ideas which, if properly developed, could be improved, and he continued to search for a satisfying and logically unassailable proof. Toward the end of the 1970s, he believed he had arrived at such a proof, which he presented ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Chicago, IL, United States
ISBN
9780812696899
SKU
V9780812696899
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About Mortimer Adler
MORTIMER J. ADLER, who died in 2001, left an indelible mark on American culture. Beginning in the 1930s, Adler was the major force in promoting the Great Books idea as an educational paradigm. He founded the Institute for Philosophical Research, launched the Paideia movement for educational reform, and revolutionized the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Dr. Adler edited hundreds of ... Read more
Reviews for How to Prove There is a God
"America's foremost philosopher."
TIME Magazine "Mortimer Adler's argument for the existence of God was a powerful reminder that the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition was far from exhausted
now we can be grateful that Adler's work is receiving the serious attention it deserves."
DEAL W. HUDSON, author of Onward Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States (2008) ... Read more
TIME Magazine "Mortimer Adler's argument for the existence of God was a powerful reminder that the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition was far from exhausted
now we can be grateful that Adler's work is receiving the serious attention it deserves."
DEAL W. HUDSON, author of Onward Christian Soldiers: The Growing Political Power of Catholics and Evangelicals in the United States (2008) ... Read more