Theology/Metaphysics

God

Does God exist, and what can we know about the divine?

Ancient Greek

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The Reading List

Follow this thread through the primary texts, in the order they enter the conversation.

1. Plato, Book VI (the Sun); (the Demiurge)

2. Aristotle, Book XII

3. Augustine, Books VII, X–XIII;

4. Anselm, , Chapters 2–4

5. Aquinas, I, Questions 2–11 (the Five Ways, divine attributes)

6. Descartes, , III, V

7. Hume,

8. Kant, (Transcendental Dialectic);

9. Hegel, ; (Religion)

10. Kierkegaard, ;

11. Nietzsche, , §§108, 125, 343; (Prologue)

12. William James, ;