Religion and Ethics in Schopenhauer
Voluntas, 2022 Schopenhauer’s theory of religion is mainly discussed in his ethics. Therefore, conventional studies often argue that Schopenhauer made an attempt to make a rational justification of religion through the process of recognising the reason for religion’s ...
Takao Ito
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Localizing Violations of the Principle of Sufficient Reason—Leibniz on the Modal Status of the PSR
Journal of Modern Philosophy, 2022 The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR)—the principle that everything has a reason—plays a central role in Leibniz’s philosophical system. It is rather difficult, however, to determine what Leibniz’s attitude towards the modal status of the PSR is.
Sebastian Bender
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Science and the Principle of Sufficient Reason: Du Châtelet contra Wolff
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2022 I argue that Émilie Du Châtelet breaks with Christian Wolff regarding the scope and epistemological content of the principle of sufficient reason, despite his influence on her basic ontology and their agreement that the principle of sufficient reason has
Aaron Wells
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The principle of sufficient reason in German philosophy of the Enlight-enment [PDF]
Кантовский сборник, 2013 In the 18th century, a philosophical dispute over the Principle of sufficient reason arose in Germany. Despite the fact that this Principe was explicitly formulated by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz only at the end of the 17th century, a major dispute about ...
Fetisova D.
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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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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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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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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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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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Du Châtelet on Sufficient Reason and Empirical Explanation
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2021 For Émilie Du Châtelet, I argue, a central role of the principle of sufficient reason is to discriminate between better and worse explanations. Her principle of sufficient reason does not play this role for just any conceivable intellect: it specifically
Aaron Wells
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