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THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD AND ATHEISM FROM DESCARTES TO THE PRESENT IAP-310M 10 L-W, 11:30-12:50 400 CRDITOS OPTATIVO DE PROFUNDIZACIN JOSEF SEIFERT FILOSOFA

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Descripcin

The course will investigate critically the main defenses and criticisms of the unique Anselmian ontological argument for the existence of God from modern philosophy to the present. Special consideration will be given to Descartes, Malebranche, Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Hartshorne, as well as to the different roles the ontological argument plays in atheism (such as in the early Findlays claim, already implicit in Kant, that there is an ontological disproof of Gods existence). II. Objectivos Generales 1. To understand the key role the ontological argument plays in modern philosophy for the defense of the existence of God and how its rejection is closely linked to a rejection of all rational knowledge of God in Kant and in atheism. 2. To understand the validity of the ontological argument for the existence of God after an extensive critical dialogue with the chief objections raised against it. Especficos 1. To understand thoroughly the most significant critique of the ontological argument advanced against it by Kant and the central importance of his critique af any rational argument for the existence of God for his whole Critique of Pure Reason. 2. To understand the key role the ontological argument played for the renovation of metaphysics in modern philosophy in Descartes, Malebranche, and Leibniz. 3. To appreciate the complexity of the relation of German Idealism to the ontological argument (in particular Kant and Hegel).. 4. To learn both reading complicated philosophical texts and to philosophize about the things of which they speak, thus reading historical texts philosophically and critically.

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Contenido

1. The Defense of the Ontological Argument in Descartes: a. particularly in Meditations V and in his Replies to Objections. b. To see the difference between the treatment of the existence of God in Med. III and in Meditations 5. c. Appreciation and critique of Descartes treatment of the OA. 2. Defense of the ontological argument in Malebranche 3. The contributions of Leibniz towards a more precise understanding of the conditions of the validity of the ontological argument. 4. A detailed discussion of Kants objections of the OA.. 5. Problematic defenses of the OA (Hegel and others) IV. Metodologa Lecture Textual Analysis and Commentary Discussion V. Evaluacin Paper Final exam VI. Bibliografa bsica

DESCARTES Meditationes de Prima Philosophia, Oeuvres de Descartes, hrsg. v. Charles Adam & Paul Tannery, Bd. VII (Paris: J. Vrin, 1983), 1-561.; Meditations, 9th printing, in two volumes, trans. by E. S. Haldane and G. R.T. Ross (Cambridge/London/New York: Cambridge University Press, 1973); G. W. LEIBNIZ De la dmonstration cartsienne de lexistence de Dieu du R. P. Lami, in Opera Philosophica, Reprint of 1840, ed. J. E. Erdmann (Aalen: Scientia Verlag, 1974), S. 177-178; Essais de Theodice sur la bont de Dieu, la libert de lhomme et l origine du Mal, in: G. W. Leibniz, Die philosophischen Schriften, hrsg. v. C.J. Gerhardt (Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965), in 7 Bnden, Bd. VI, S. 21-471.

MALEBRANCHE Nicolas Malebranche (Domenico Bosco, Ed.), Trattato dellamore di Dio Testo francese a fronte (Milano: Rusconi, 1997); Oeuvres compltes, dir. A Robinet, (Paris, 1958-1970), 21 vol. (2e d. 1967-1984); The Search after Truth, and: Elucidations of the Search after Truth, transl. by Thomas Lennon and Paul J. Olscamp, with a Commentary by T. Lennon (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1980),

Edmund Husserl:
KANT

Kritik der reinen Vernunft, in: Kants Werke, Akademie-Textausgabe (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1968), Bd. III; Critique of Pure Reason, Transcendental Dialectis, on the absolute Ideal. Josef Seifert, Gott als Gottesbeweis. Eine phnomenologische Neubegrndung des ontologischen Arguments, (Heidelberg: Universittsverlag C. Winter, 1996), 2. Aufl. 2000; The same author, Kant y Brentano contra Anselmo y Descartes. Reflexions sobre el argumento ontologico in Thmata 2 (Universidades de Malaga y Sevilla, 1985); Kant und Brentano gegen Anselm und Descartes. Reflexionen ber das ontologische Argument in Theologia (Athens 1985), 3-30-