The Scandal of Reason: or Shadow of God

by David F. Haight, Marjorie A. Haight

Overview

By turning the classical arguments for God's existence on their head, David and Marjorie Haight present original arguments for the existence of the devil in order to reveal a cosmic 'God beyond Goddiness' or the God beyond good and evil, which reconciles Divinity with its Shadow. The consequences of doing so cast light on the mysteries and problems of evil, divine predication, universals, time and eternity, the highest good, mind and body, personal immortality and the philosophical foundations of science. This superunification of the most fundamental concepts in philosophy, cosmology, quantum-relativity physics, chaos theory, biology, religion, ethics and even poetry anticipates a grand Theory of Everything.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761827252
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	01/21/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	730
Product dimensions:	6.07(w) x 9.16(h) x 1.54(d)

About the Author

David F. Haight is Professor of Philosophy, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Marjorie A. Haight is an Independent Scholar and former Philosophy Instructor, Iowa State University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 The Devaluation of Being: First Impoverishment of Being; Second Impoverishment of Being; Third Impoverishment of Being; Fourth Impoverishment of Being Chapter 3 Conversation Between Anselm and the Fool: The Ontological Argument; Standard Objections and Replies; An Analogical Argument for the Devil; Is Existence a Perfection?; The Circle of Faith; Synopsis; Appendix Chapter 4 Devil Demonstrated Through Its Effects: Six Ways: Motion and Causality; Necessity, Contingency and Goodness; Demonic Teleology; Are All Arguments for God Petitios; No Fool-Proof God-Proof Exists Chapter 5 Dialogue Between Descartes and the Evil Genius: The Cartesian Circle; More Demon-strations; The Round Dance of Reason; Are All Statements of Existence Contingent? Infinity and Evil; Conclusion Chapter 6 The Problems of Evil and Time, or the Dialogue Continued Between Leibniz and the Evil Genius: The Question of Being; Being and Goodness; A Viable Theodicy; A Problem with Future Contingent Statements; How to Continue the Dialogue?; Hartshorne's Obje Chapter 7 An Absolute Theory of Relativity: A Meta-Physics of Consciousness; The Maya of Space/Time, that Which Is and Is Not; The Ages of the Ageless; The Once and Future Vision; Quod superius sicut quod inferius: As Above, So Below; Truth is Bea Chapter 8 Mathematics and the Good: Absolved or Purified Set-Theoretical Wholes; Set-Theoretical Reflection; Waiting for Gödel; Trans-Rational Thinking; Paradox Lust; Infinite Substance is Inexhaustible; Another Extended Footnote to Plato Chapter 9 Is This the Best of All Possible Worlds?: The Law of Continuity; The Monadology; Materia Prima; Pre-established Harmony; The Best of All Possible Worlds; Immaculate Perception Chapter 10 The It from the Bit (Itty Bitty) Fallacy: The Labyrinth of the Continuum; Squaring the Circle; Method of Exhaustion or Convergence; The Knotted Thread that Ties Up Loose Ends Chapter 11 Science is Not Without Presuppositions: Breaks in Spacetime or from Spacetime?; Living Space and Time; The Paradigm Paradigm; Memory Re-membered, Not Dis-membered; Back to the Future Chapter 12 The Revaluation of Being as Such: The Mystery of "Is" as Is; Mind-Body Mystery; Which Came First- the Computer or the Egghead?; Are Computers Conscious?; "Nature," Aeschylus said, "is stronger than science."; Meditative as Distinguished from Calcula Chapter 13 Surplus Meaning and Value: The Foundation of Analogy; The Divine or Golden Formula for Blending; Immediacy, or Participation, as the Final "Mediator"; The Richness of Language; The Path is Laid Out for Us Chapter 14 The Good Beyond Good and Evil, or the Transvaluation of Being: The Mystery of Good and Evil; "The Truth Shall Set You Free"; The Devil Revisited and Revised Chapter 15 Mirror, Mirror of the Fall: The Participation-Mystique of Good and Evil; The Mirror of Possibilities Chapter 16 Some Great Thing: A History of the Archetypal World; The Wheel of Life; The Apple of One's Eye; The Tragic Sense of Life; Poetic Madness; The Passion for Infinity; The Inside-Outside Story Chapter 17 Selective Bibliography Chapter 18 Index Chapter 19 About the Authors