The Contingency of Necessity: Reason and God as Matters of Fact

Tyler Tritten

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2017

The Contingency of Necessity

Reason and God as Matters of Fact

Tyler Tritten

In the series New Perspectives in Ontology

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474428217

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Argues that that all necessity is consequent, and that reason and God are contingent, albeit eternal, necessities

Focusing on the central striking claim that there is something rather than nothing – that all necessity is consequent – Tritten engages with a wide range of ancient as well as contemporary philosophers including Quentin Meillassoux, Richard Kearney, Friedrich Schelling, Émile Boutroux and Markus Gabriel. He examines the ramifications of this truth arguing that even reason and God, while necessary according to essence, are utterly contingent with respect to existence.

Key Features

Shows how all necessary truths are products of an epistemic framework that is itself historically contingent
Explains the nature of contingency as something that stems from the facticity of being itself
Explains the emergence and ontological status of reason, particularly the principle of sufficient reason
Argues for the contingency of God’s existence while maintaining the necessity of his essence
Provides an alternative to Quentin Meillassoux’s thesis for the necessity of contingency

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: An Attempt at a Speculative Ontology or an Alternative to Possible-God Theologies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I Critical and Constructive Preliminaries: Meillassoux, Boutroux and the Early Schelling
Chapter 1 Meillassoux against the Principle of Reason: An Ontology of Factiality Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2 Boutroux’s Alternative: An Ontology of the Fact Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
Chapter 3 On the Primacy of Matter: Neoplatonism Right-Side Up Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Part II Contingent Reason and a Contingent God: The Late Schelling and the Late Heidegger
Chapter 4 Reason as Consequent Universal: On Thinking and Being Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
Chapter 5 Decision and Withdrawal: On the Facticity and Posteriority of God Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Chapter 6 Event and De-cision: Towards an Appropriation of Heidegger’s Last God Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Part III Application and Concluding Remarks
Chapter 7 A Response to Old Riddles and a New Typology: On the Euthyphro Dilemma and Theomonism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Afterword Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Philosophy

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Published: October 8, 2017
ISBN: 9781474428217