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El principio de razón suficiente y la ciencia

Scientia et Fides, 2014
El principio de razón suficiente puede tomarse como una guía para el avance del conocimiento filosófico y científico. De este modo, mediante el principio de razón suficiente se establece un vínculo de unión entre las disciplinas científicas y la ...
Rubén Pereda
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Conflicts in the Metaphysical Foundations of Schopenhauer’s Ethics [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018
Schopenhauer encourages us towards sympathy and empathy for others by holding that compassion is the foundation and essence of ethics; but when we turn to his philosophical system, we encounter conflicts that negate his ethics and in practice, compassion
Masoud Asgari, Gholam Hossein Tavacoly
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Kant and the “awakening” from the rationalist principle of sufficient reason

Sententiae, 2020
The paper inspects Anderson’s central thesis that Kant’s dogmatic slumber was interrupted by Hume’s critique of metaphysics (rational theology) in his Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, namely, by his critique of the rationalist principle of ...
Victor Chorny
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Why Does Anything Exist?

TheoLogica, 2023
Rasmussen develops a new answer to the question, "Why does anything exist?" He begins by describing a puzzle about how anything can exist. The puzzle motivates the quest to explain things as far as one can.
Joshua Rasmussen
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Kant’s Humanism: A Loophole in the Principle of Sufficient Reason [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations
I consider the principle of sufficient reason (henceforth, PSR) as it functions in both Leibniz and Kant. The issue separating these thinkers is a modal status of absolute contingency, which is exempt from PSR insofar as it is neither logically necessary,
Daniel Dal Monte
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason and Necessarianism; Describing and Analyzing two Contemporary Approaches [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2019
In contemporary analytic philosophy, the principle of sufficient reason (PSR) has been attacked due to its controversial results. Among these results, necessarianism (modal collapse) is the most significant one. Indeed, our intuition indicates that there
Roozbeh Zare, Seyyed Hassan Hosseini
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Free Will versus Determinism - As Determined by Radical Conceptual Changes [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2021
My objective in this article is to question whether the problem of free will can, within our current conceptual system, be framed coherently. It is already widely recognized that a mental faculty, the will, needed to initiate action, no longer fits with ...
Nancey Murphy
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A Comparative Study on the Degree of Dependence of Clarke’s and Sadra’s Arguments for the Existence of God on the Principle of Sufficient Reason [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2010
After briefly discussing the various versions of the Principle of Sufficient Reason (hereafter PSR), I argue that Clarke’s classic version of the Cosmological Arguments for the existence of God is rooted in the PSR, while Sadra’s so-called Siddigin ...
hasan hoseyni
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How Did Evil Come into the World? A Primordial Free-Will Theodicy

Religions, 2023
James P. Sterba has provided a compelling argument to the effect that given the extent of significant, and indeed even horrendous, evil that an all-good and all-powerful being could have prevented, there is no God.
Mark Johnston
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Ultimate Explanation and Necessary Being: Describing and Analyzing Timothy O'Connor’s View Point [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2018
Usually, an explanation regarded as the answer to Why questions and therefore the ultimate explanation is to be the answer to the question of “why there is anything rather than nothing?”.
Roozbeh Zare, Seyyed Hassan Hoseinie
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