The Contingency of Necessity

Reason and God as Matters of Fact

• Author(s): Tyler Tritten,
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Pages: 261
• ISBN_10: 1474428193
  ISBN_13: 9781474428194
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Philosophy / Free Will & Determinism , Philosophy / Metaphysics , Philosophy / Political , Philosophy / Religious , Philosophy / Movements / Rationalism , Religion / Philosophy , Religion / Theism , Religion / Theology ,

Description:... 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.