The Question of God

by Michael F. Palmer

This important textbook introduces the six great arguments for the existence of God, as found in a wealth of primary sources from classic and contemporary texts. It requires no specialist knowledge of philosophy, and is ideally suited to students and teachers at school or university level. Sections
* The Ontological Argument (Anselm, Haight, Descartes, Kant, Findlay, Malcolm, Hick)
* The Cosmological Argument (Aquinas, Taylor, Hume, Kant)
* The Argument from Design (Paley, Hume, Darwin, Dawkins, Ward)
* The Argument from Miracles (Hume, Hambourger, Coleman, Flew, Swinburne, Diamond)
* The Moral Argument (Plato, Lewis, Kant, Rachels, Martin, Nielsen)
* The Pragmatic Argument (Pascal, Gracely, Stich, Penelhum, James, Moore).
Additional features
* revision questions
* key reading for each chapter and an extensive bibliography
* illustrated biographies of key thinkers and their works
* marginal notes and summaries of arguments.

Genres: Philosophy

384 pages, Paperback

First published May 24, 2001

Reviews

[Josep Marti · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have mixed feelings about this book. It's an excellent introduction to the world of theistic proof and it contains good excerpts that allow the student to start digging the complex world of (dis?)proving the divine. But even though it's excellent in that regard, it's clearly biased in its selection of material and in its way of handling it. It gets especially clear in the chapter of the moral argument. After reading it I looked the author up and, no surprise, he is the author of the Atheist Manifesto.

A good book regardless!!!