tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post963619157106557941..comments2024-03-28T13:15:29.740-07:00Comments on Metacrock's Blog: The Question of Being, Brute Fact or Deep Structures?Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-81366427858221842742016-09-20T02:22:35.058-07:002016-09-20T02:22:35.058-07:00If the concept of a necessary being makes sense, a...If the concept of a necessary being makes sense, as you maintain, and if God is a necessary being, then God (at least) would not be a brute fact.<br /><br /><b>God is not a being, This pure Paul Tillich I'm spouting now, God is the ground of being he's no more a being then he is contingent. He is the basis of all being.</b><br /><br /><br /> However, I don't think there are successful arguments for either the thesis that necessity applies to beings, <br /><br /><b>because he is the basis of being its not the same as just talking abouit any old being like you or I.God is transpersonal and transcends thing hood. </b><br /><br /><br />or that God has to be conceived as a necessary being (nor, for that matter, that if there is any necessary being, it could only be God).<br /><br /><br /><b>Not a necessary being but the necessary aspect of a,l being ,Since being has to be it must be eternal, God is the eternal and necessary aspect of all being. for that reason God is a priori not contingent, thus has to be necessary, He;s either necessary or impossible,<br />that's the premise of Hartshorne's modal argument God is either necessary or impossible; there must be a necessarily and eternal aspect of being and that aspect we call God.</b>Joseph Hinman (Metacrock)https://www.blogger.com/profile/06957529748541493998noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11516215.post-9649891004181540812016-09-19T06:25:30.782-07:002016-09-19T06:25:30.782-07:00If the concept of a necessary being makes sense, a...If the concept of a necessary being makes sense, as you maintain, and if God is a necessary being, then God (at least) would not be a brute fact. However, I don't think there are successful arguments for either the thesis that necessity applies to beings, or that God has to be conceived as a necessary being (nor, for that matter, that if there is any necessary being, it could only be God).Eric Sotnakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06162425851889399481noreply@blogger.com